Tag: linux
Fedora 27 Release Party UAM-AZC
Kernel 4.14 test day Help Wanted
Cisco Packettracer 7.1 on Fedora 27
Cisco Packet Tracer 7.1 is created by Cisco SystemsTM and is now provided for free distribution. Self learners are now able to download Cisco Packet Tracer after registering on Cisco Netacad website. A free Packet Tracer 101 (English), a 1-hour self-paced online course is also offered to every registered (free) student to help them get started with PacketTracer 7.1. So you can register and download from here.
The cisco packettracer 7.1 is available for GNU/Linux under the next requirements:
- nss,linicu and ssl libraries.
- QT5 script-tools, WebKit.
- Cisco NetSpace account. (Mandatory)
- x86_64 family processor (Cisco droped i86 support for Linux)
We need install some libraries as follows:
$ sudo dnf install zlib-devel ncurses-devel gtk2 glibc glibc-devel \\ libpng12 libstdc++ libX11-devel libXrender libXrandr libusb \\ libXtst nss qt qtwebkit qt5-qtmultimedia qt5-qtwebkit
x86_64 (64bits)
Today most people have a x86_64 machine and this time we have three options for resolve the OpenSSL dependency:
1.- Just download the package generated by me and simply trust me (I call this the ugliest method because i don’t provide any warranty):
$ sudo dnf copr enable bt0dotninja/openssl-lib-compat $ sudo dnf install openssl-lib-compat
2.- Compile your own version (I call the “just ugly” method because you can check the source):
First get the code:
$ wget http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/source/SRPMS/o/openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17.src.rpm $ sudo dnf install @development-tools fedora-packager krb5-devel $ sudo rpm -Uvh openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17.src.rpm
For the build process we need super user access:
$ su - # cd rpmbuild/SPECS/ # wget http://bt0.ninja/rpm/openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0.spec # rpmbuild -bb openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0.spec # rpm -i ../RPMS/x86_64/openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc27.x86_64.rpm # exit
So many thanks to Yves L’ECUYER owner of http://www.deltaeridani.com, the original spec and the example are all from him.
Cisco Packet Tracer 7.1 will be downloaded from Cisco Networking Academy Portal,
$ tar -xzf PacketTracer71_*_linux.tar.gz && cd PacketTracer71 $ chmod +x install $ sudo ./install
After accept the EULA, the installation begins, we need set the environment variables with the next command:
$ sudo chmod +x /opt/pt/set_ptenv.sh $ sudo /opt/pt/set_ptenv.sh $ sudo chmod +x /opt/pt/set_qtenv.sh $ sudo /opt/pt/set_qtenv.sh
And finally fixing some missing dependencies (Many thanks to Robertpro for this fix )
# As user... mkdir ~/.lib64 wget https://github.com/robertpro/tips/raw/59d14e7b148ebd10698ad3621b4c8a0bad38844b/packet_tracer_fedora26/libicudata.so.52 -O ~/.lib64/libicudata.so.52 wget https://github.com/robertpro/tips/raw/59d14e7b148ebd10698ad3621b4c8a0bad38844b/packet_tracer_fedora26/libicui18n.so.52 -O ~/.lib64/libicui18n.so.52 wget https://github.com/robertpro/tips/raw/59d14e7b148ebd10698ad3621b4c8a0bad38844b/packet_tracer_fedora26/libicuuc.so.52 -O ~/.lib64/libicuuc.so.52 # Adding new library path ONLY for the packettracer startup script sudo sed -i "s|lib|lib:$HOME/.lib64|g" /opt/pt/packettracer
If for some reason Robertpro stops hosting that libraries, you can download it from here.
Graphical Launcher on Gnome
With our favorite plain text editor we will edit the file /usr/share/applications/pt7.desktop
as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PacketTracer 7.1
Comment=Networking Cisco
GenericName=PacketTracer 7.1
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/pt/packettracer
Icon=pt7
StartupNotify=true
Or as point me the always clever x3mboy, you can just:
$ sudo cp /opt/pt/bin/Cisco-PacketTracer.desktop /usr/share/applications/
Now we will run Cisco Packet Tracer 7.1 from our Desktop:
Fedora 27 is out!!!
Today Fedora 27 was released, check the complete note here:
LxQT Test Day: 2017-08-17
Tuesday, 2017-08-17, is the DNF 2.0 Test Day! As part of this planned Change for Fedora 26, we need your help to test LxQT!
All the instructions are on the wiki page, so please read through and come help us test! As always, the event will be in #fedora-test-day
on Freenode IRC.
Original note here:
techtalk-pse in Fedora
Recently looking fedora-tagger. I found techtalk-pse.
Tech Talk PSE is a Linuxpresentation software written by Richard Jones intended mostly for technical software demonstrations. It is designed to be simple to use (for Linux users) and it allows users to create technically accurate and interesting talks and demonstrations.
The man page (full of useful references and tips) has a little tutorial with a very simple example , maybe we appreciate this presentation software with a most complete example can show us the use of this poweruser tool:
First Choose a topic: This is the most important part of this little example, for this purpose and because this is a tech talk presentation software I will choose test boltron (this is only an example and i don’t any justice to the amazing work of the fedora modularity team). for a better explanation about what boltron is look:
Installation
For installing techtalk-pse in fedora just:
$ sudo dnf install techtalk-pse
Download the example from here and uncompress:
$ tar -xJf TestExample.tar.xz
Test
$ techtalk-pse
You should see something like this:
for one better guide read the fine manual:
$ man techtalk-pse
Just Happy Sysadmin Day!!
Packettracer 7 in Fedora 26
Cisco Packet Tracer 7.0 is created by Cisco SystemsTM and is now provided for free distribution. Self learners are now able to download Cisco Packet Tracer after registering on Cisco Netacad website. A free Packet Tracer 101 (English), a 1-hour self-paced online course is also offered to every registered (free) student to help them get started with PacketTracer 7.0, So you can register and download from here.
The cisco packettracer 7.0 is available for GNU/Linux under the next requirements:
- nss and ssl libraries.
- QT4 script-tools, WebKit and QT3 backward support.
- Cisco NetSpace account. (Mandatory)
We need install some libraries as follows:
$ sudo dnf install zlib-devel ncurses-devel gtk2 glibc glibc-devel \\ libstdc++ libX11-devel libXrender libXrandr libusb libXtst nss \\ qt qtwebkit
This time we have x86 (32bits) and x86_64(64bits) Packet Tracer packages, to be sure what is our version, run:
$ uname -m
i686 (32bits)
Still we have the ugly openssl-1.0.0 dependency, so if we have a i686 (32bits) version of Fedora 26
$ wget http://www.deltaeridani.com/openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc26.i686.rpm $ sudo rpm -Uvh openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc26.i686.rpm
x86_64 (64bits)
Today most people have a x86_64 machine and this time we have three options for resolve the OpenSSL dependency:
1.- Just download the package generated by me and simply trust me (I call this the ugliest method because i don’t provide any warranty):
$ sudo dnf copr enable bt0dotninja/openssl-lib-compat $ sudo dnf install openssl-lib-compat
2.- Compile your own version (I call the “just ugly” method because you can check the source):
First get the code:
$ wget http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/releases/17/Everything/source/SRPMS/o/openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17.src.rpm $ sudo dnf install @development-tools fedora-packager krb5-devel $ sudo rpm -Uvh openssl-1.0.0i-1.fc17.src.rpm
For the build process we need super user access:
$ su - # cd rpmbuild/SPECS/ # wget http://bt0.ninja/rpm/openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0.spec # rpmbuild -bb openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0.spec # rpm -i ../RPMS/x86_64/openssl-lib-compat-1.0.0i-1.fc26.x86_64.rpm # exit
So many thanks to Yves L’ECUYER owner of http://www.deltaeridani.com, the original spec and the example are all from him.
Cisco Packet Tracer 7.0 will be downloaded from Cisco Networking Academy Portal,
$ tar -xzf PacketTracer70_*_linux.tar.gz && cd PacketTracer70 $ chmod +x install $ sudo ./install
After accept the EULA, the installation begins, we need set the environment variables with the next command:
$ sudo chmod +x /opt/pt/set_ptenv.sh $ sudo /opt/pt/set_ptenv.sh
Graphical Launcher on Gnome
With our favorite plain text editor we will edit the file /usr/share/applications/pt7.desktop
as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Name=PacketTracer 7.0
Comment=Networking Cisco
GenericName=PacketTracer 7
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/pt/packettracer
Icon=pt7
StartupNotify=true
Now we will run Cisco Packet Tracer 7.0 from our Desktop:
My first year in the Fedora Project
Yesterday I completed an incredible first year in the fedora project, I noticed it because I was awarded with one badge for it (egg badge).
I arrived a month ago through whatcanidoforfedora, who told me that it was a good idea to go to ambassadors, commops and infrastructure, I tried first in ambassadors and immediately I was kicked :P. being member of any major parts of the fedora project requires a lot of patience and work. that was my first learning about the the project.
Today I’m member of CommOps, DotNet, Marketing, infrastructure (apprentice) and I’m very happy with it (Ambassadors not yet).
But what have I done all this time? Mainly looking around in some parts of the project, helping with little thinks like wiki editing, scripts for metrics, documenting SOPs, testing the kernel in a lot of machines, and review and vote tags in my dead times. Here the the bar char:
I have learned a lot from this great community and mainly from the most committed people in it. So at this time I have some personal heroes:
- Kevin Fenzi
- Justin W. Flory
- Eduard Lucena
- Radka Janek
- James “Ben” Williams
- Sachin S. Kamath
- Bhagyashree
They are amazing people (and bunny) and they are a lot more active in the fedora project than I, thanks for be my inspiration