Installing Packet Tracer on Ubuntu 23.10

[Lourel17]

Hello everyone,

I just did a fresh install of Ubuntu 23.10 on my laptop, I was able to reinstall every single software excepted Cisco Packet Tracer. The error message by installing it from the official .deb package is the following one: 

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
packettracer: depends: libgl1-mesa-glx but it is not installable

Of course I tried to install libgl1-mesa-glx from an old repository, but it didn't work. Has anyone managed to install it?
Thanks

[Martin L]

see column of right side of this post called Related community topics

Also, check if there is any1 with solution at CLN PT sub-forum https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/s/topic/0TO6e000000WEorGAG/packet-tracer

Regards, ML
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[kyler12]

Having the same issue. I attempted to apt-get install libgl1-mesa-glx, but I guess it isn't in the Ubuntu repository anymore.

[Martin L]

This is official request forum to ask PT people for help and report bugs (from PT Help menu)

https://ciscocx.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2t25qnUuu0pOdv0

or try this main site http://ptbugs.netacad.net/

Regards, ML
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[luisusquianomoreno]

Hello

I am facing the same problem

I have ubuntu 22.10 and cannot install packet tracer because that dependency is not available even when I tried 

sudo apt install -f

[petrusnoleto · Accepted solution]

I solved this error 
link: https://github.com/PetrusNoleto/Error-Resolved-to-install-cisco-packet-tracer-in-ubuntu-23.10-unmet-dependencies

[kyler12]

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@petrusnoleto wrote:

I solved this error 
link: https://github.com/PetrusNoleto/Error-Resolved-to-install-cisco-packet-tracer-in-ubuntu-23.10-unmet-dependencies

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This worked, thank you very much!

I'll also add that you should make sure to use gdebi when installing. For me, I was unable to accept the license agreement from the terminal, causing the download to freeze. You can install gdebi from Ubuntu repos in the terminal with the command "sudo apt-get install gdebi"

[cyizacyusaneudor]

it's error package yes, but provide also the full package for new user

[Lourel17]

Thank you very much for your work! Solved the problem for me.

I just noticed the gdebi command can only install packages one by one, so I had to perform it again to install the second one.

[Diamondratsilavina]

I tried that way but didn't get any result. Someone can tell me how else can we do it?

[luizcarluz1]

I have this problem too.

[juancarlosaf]

If when installing a version of Packet Tracer, you see that it cannot be installed because it depends on the libgl1-mesa-glx package, which was a transitional package and is no longer available, you can install it manually.

Download the package manually, for example, from https://github.com/farhatizakaria/CiscoPacketTracer-Ubuntu_24.10/blob/main/libgl1-mesa-glx_23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1_amd64.deb

Then, in the terminal, install it manually with the command sudo dpkg -i, for example, sudo dpkg -i /home/(yourpcname)/Download/libgl1-mesa-glx_23.0.4-0ubuntu1~22.04.1_amd64.deb

Then, try installing the Packet Tracer version that was failing again. (If you see that you are missing more packages, simply continue installing those missing packages that are not on your computer)

Sources:
1. Information at: https://github.com/farhatizakaria/CiscoPacketTracer-Ubuntu_24.10
3. Packet Tracer 9.0 does not require the libgl1-mesa-glx package; you can try installing it from https://www.netacad.com/resources/lab-downloads
3. More information at: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1517352/issues-installing-libgl1-mesa-glx