Cisco decided that they would supply their own QT libraries for Packet Tracer. This makes sense when it’s a cross-platform product, but results in horribly ugly fonts, menus and buttons in Ubuntu. To solve this install the following libraries:
sudo aptitude install libqtwebkit2.2-cil libqt4-script libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql
and then comment out the “EXPORT” line in /usr/local/PacketTracer5/packettracer
You should now have beautiful fonts. Enjoy!
Thanks for this – I had been muddling along in the face of adversity which wasn’t really the best use of my study time. All fixed now though – cheers again!
Hello,
Iam using Ubuntu 10.04, Trying to view Cisco network Academy online with Firefox, but fonts and display is poor. Can this be corrected.. I am new to ubuntu
Gracias!instalado en Ubuntu 10-4
Very useful, Thanx a million!!
At last!!! Thanks
Works for Ubuntu 10.10 and packet tracer 5.3. Thanx a lot.
Perfect on Ubuntu 10.10! *-*
Thanks!
Works on Ubuntu 10.04 and Ubuntu 10.10. Cisco themselves should provide that solution, as without that trick Packet Tracer is pretty useless under Linux. Great job, thank you!
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it works though but after I commented out that line “export” my packet tracer starts crashing every time i try to save or delete a device… is there anybody can help?
Ubuntu 10.04 – works perfectly. Thanks for making PT useful.
muito obrigado!
hugs from brazil!!
When I comment the above mentioned line Packet Tracer won’t start.
After working with PT for a while I found that when ‘EXPORT’ line is commented:
a) PT can’t save a file – crash happens. Fortunately problem can be solved (http://pvradu.blogspot.com/2010/04/packet-tracer-52-font-problem.html)
b) when I switch opened activity to Simulation Mode and press Capture/Forward button, sometimes all buttons on the Simulation Panel start blinking.
Has anyone encountered this (b) behaviour? Any advice to solve it?
I installed wine and it fixed mine. I don’t run it in wine but when I installed wine it installed something that had to do with fonts, I think this is what fixed it.
I believe this is what you need “ttf-mscorefonts-installer”
Thank you very much! It worked like a charm in Ubuntu 10.10 using Packet Tracer 5.3.1
Thank you that work
Thanks
. It’s working on ubuntu 11.04.
@paul, @butterwewe
try this : http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=87983#p158833
Thanks Sonnie… Really it working on ubuntu 10.04 LTS and now I can see the perfect font
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