INSTALLING CISCO PACKET TRACER 5.3 IN UBUNTU

Hello everyone,
    This post is all about cisco packet tracer installting and running in ubuntu.

Cisco Packet Tracer is a Official network simulation program by Cisco that allows users to experiment with network behavior. As an integral part of the Networking Academy comprehensive learning experience, Packet Tracer provides simulation, visualization, authoring, assessment, and collaboration capabilities and facilitates the teaching and learning of complex technology concepts.

I use 32bit version of blackbuntu 11.04 and i enjoyed installing packet tracer and very thankful to cisco for providing this powerful tool for linux users.

First of all download Packet tracer source installer 
  
   packet tracer 5.3 is available in various source installer, for ubuntu users i would suggest .deb or .bin installer.

 click me to download

once downloaded open terminal and change directory to the location where installer is downloaded(desktop in my case).Now for those who have downloaded .deb installer follow:

sudo dpkg -i PacketTracer-5.3-u.i386.deb

for bin installer, first off change the permissions either by right click on the installer setup then choose properties then permissions tab and finally check "Allow executing file as a program".

 
or in the terminal write
    chmod +x PacketTracer531_i386_installer-deb.bin
After that in the terminal --
    ./PacketTracer531_i386_installer-deb.bin 

Accept EULA and you are done with installing packet tracer.