Dependency problem with packet tracer on linux mint libgl1-mesa-glx

[kkonce]

Hello,

I hope you all doing well, 

I am facing a problem when I'm trying to install packet tracer on Linux Mint 22.1 but I'm facing a problem. Packet tracer depends on a package  libgl1-mesa-glx witch is not installable. 

I've tried some solutions on the internet but I can't get around this problem.

When I try "apt --fix-broken install" It uninstalls packet tracer.

Any help greatly appreciated

[spd_]

Hi, I encountered this issue today 24.08. The solution was to force-install packet tracer,

sudo dpkg -i --force-depends PacketTracer_822_amd64.deb
sudo apt install -f

The reason being that the new mint 22.1 actually has the actual OpenGL dependencies installed, but packet tracer 8.22 just cant find it under the old package name it is expecting. 

So far it has installed and seems to be no issues, even though after successful installation it will tell that some dependencies are missing. Hope this helps.

[kkonce]

Hi spd 

Thank you for the response. Unfortunately it didn't work.

I used the commands you used and  after sudo apt install -f it wants to remove packettracer. It displays the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libdrm-radeon1:i386 libglapi-mesa:i386 libxcb-dri2-0:i386
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
packettracer
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

[spd_]

Interesting. If it helps I initially allowed the file to be executed as a program by from the properties menu. Confirm if the mesa dependency is still missing by running

sudo apt install ligbli-mesa-glx

If it is still unable to locate the dependency then try to uninstall packet tracer completely and re-download the file again and run the force-install. To be thorough also, check your Software Manager if Mesa-utils have been installed.

Hope this helps.

[kkonce]

Thank you for replying

running sudo apt install ligbli-mesa-glx resulted in: E: Unable to locate package ligbli-mesa-glx

I will try to reinstall packet tracer and I will post the results