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#76 Hardware & System Configuration » Cisco Packet Tracer on Devuan Ascii » 2018-12-05 05:15:27
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I know this is a particularly unique piece of software but hey, I'm sure there's others out there who need to use it for school or maybe they like it better than GNS3? I dunno but here are the instructions just in case someone else needs them.
Cisco expects individuals to be enrolled in a NetAcad course to get the Packet Tracer tarball so please download it from your netacad course. I will not provide the files, please don't ask. 
Once the tarball has been downloaded continue with the following steps and be sure to complete all of them otherwise Packet Tracer will likely fail to launch or it will display the error: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
1) su -c 'apt-get install --no-install-recommends libqt5x11extras5 libqt5multimedia5 libqt5webkit5'
2) mkdir PKT; cd PKT
3) wget -c http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/debian/pool/main/libp/libpng/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb -> Downloads libpng12-0 from Devuan Jessie repository
4) su -c 'dpkg -i libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3_amd64.deb'
5) su -c 'tar xzf "Packet Tracer 7.2 for Linux 64 bit.tar.gz" '
6) su -c './install'When all of the above steps are done, you should be able to launch Packet Tracer by issuing the command:
packettracer#77 Desktop and Multimedia » Devuan 3 and KDE Plasma 5 » 2018-12-04 17:35:42
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Was simply messing around per a friends request. (They said they'd switch to Devuan if I could show them a newish version KDE Plasma working on Devuan).
Was shockingly easy as most everything was available in the repos for Beowulf! Devuan has come such a long way and it's so nice to be able to finally show folks all the hard work that the Dev team has done. Thank you guys!
#78 Re: Devuan » Migrating from Mint » 2018-12-04 00:12:31
User friendly is subjective.
So much truth... Every-time you ask someone why they don't use a Linux system: "It's not User Friendly"... Personally find the lack of a functional CLI in Windows to be very non-user friendly, lol. I digress...
Vargr - Depending on how much you tinkered around with older Mint, you may notice that Devuan works a lot like old Mint did! Devuan is great though. As ChuangTzu mentioned Devuan and Mint are both derivatives of Debian so you can typically get similar functionality! I'd suggest you test on a non-essential machine or even better a virtual machine though! Good luck and welcome to Devuan.
#79 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Closest and fast Desktop like Qube for Linux? » 2018-11-29 16:42:40
Reminds me a lot of compiz... Not tried it on Devuan but Mate and Compiz has worked well in the past on other Distros.
#80 Re: News & Announcements » We're now 800 strong here! » 2018-11-27 02:13:09
I'm sure there are a ton of other users of Devuan out there too. I've been following you guys and testing/releasing how-to's for years now! Finally getting around to the forums and hoping to help out more. I was ecstatic about the SysV and Debian/Devuan news as well so that helped fuel the getting off my rear and onto the forums...
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