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| # A copy I made 6th May 2026: https://codeberg.org/jipmelon/t/raw/branch/main/Cisco_Packet_Tracer_help.pdf | |
| ar xf CiscoPacketTracer_900_Ubuntu_64bit.deb | |
| tar xf data.tar.xz | |
| cd opt/pt/ | |
| box64 packettracer.AppImage --appimage-extract # use `./packettracer.AppImage --appimage-extract` if on x86 | |
| cd squashfs-root/opt/pt/help/default | |
| pw() { pandoc --pdf-engine=weasyprint "$1" -o "${1/.*}.pdf"; } | |
| hl=$(echo menu.htm && xidel menu.htm -e '//@href' | grep -P '\.htm$' | sed 's/http\:\/\/tutorials\.ptnetacad\.net\/tutorials80\.htm//') | |
| sed -i.bak -E 's/Skip to main content//g' menu.htm | |
| for i in $hl; do pw "$i"; done # this will take a while | |
| pl=$(echo $hl | sed s/htm/pdf/g) | |
| pdfunite $pl Cisco_Packet_Tracer_help.pdf |
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