Cannot launch Packet Tracer 7

Whenever I try running the Packet Tracer by entering 'packettracer' I get following output:

Starting Packet Tracer 7.0 /usr/local/bin/packettracer: line 8: 13442 Aborted ./PacketTracer7 "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1

After each try of the installation, I got something similar. Only thing changes are the number (line 8: X).

I have followed this guide to install the Packet Tracer.

1 Answer

I spent weeks trying to get Packet Tracer 7 to work after having the same error. I believe I have found the solution though. Should work on Ubuntu or any Debian based distribution.

Remove the package kde-style-breeze-qt4.

sudo apt-get remove kde-style-breeze-qt4

Be mindful that this may also remove programs dependent on this package. To force removal of only this package without the packages that depend on it use:

sudo dpkg --remove --force-depends kde-style-breeze-qt4

In my case the program that would have normally been removed for being dependent on kde-style-breeze-qt4 still works without it.

I hope my solution works for you. Not sure what kde-style-breeze-qt4 does but I notice that I also have kde-style-breeze on my system as well. Must be a qt library conflict or something.