Container for Cisco Packet Tracer 8.2.1 with Podman

This is my personal repos to build Packet Tracer container on Fedora (running Xorg not Wayland).

• Packet Tracer is only supported on Ubuntu so I'm building a Ubuntu container with Podman.
• Packet Tracer has a mandatory login process (skillsforall.com) so I added firefox.
• Also added a missing qt5 lib for version 8.2.1.

Install the application with Podman:

Note you need to accept EULA (End-User-License-Agreement) from Cisco to install the software on your system. A dialog will show up during the installation.

build.sh script

The script will run a container then create a local image with Packet Tracer installed.

You can then use that image to run a container with the application already installed: tags are editable on top of the script (variables).

Download Ubuntu package from Cisco

Signup or login to skillsforall.com to download the Ubuntu version.

You should get a .deb file (e.g Packet_Tracer821_amd64_signed.deb).

build the image

mkdir tmp && cd tmp
git clone https://github.com/lpwprojects/packettracer_container.git . 
cp ~/Downloads/Packet_Tracer821_amd64_signed.deb .
chmod +x ./build.sh
./build.sh

Create new container from local image with the application

# Example with shared volume '/home/share' from host as '/SHARE' inside container (e.g import labs you download into Packet Tracer)
podman run --name <CONTAINER NAME> -dt -e DISPLAY -v /home/share:/SHARE:Z -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix --security-opt label=type:container_runtime_t <LOCAL IMAGE NAME>

Run the application

podman exec <CONTAINER NAME> packettracer

# ==> bashr: alias packettracer='podman start <CONTAINER NAME> && podman exec <CONTAINER NAME> packettracer ; podman stop <CONTAINER NAME>'