You need to download GNS3 and Dynamips. For GNS3 you would need to install PyQt4 and telnet which are not present in the standard F17 installation. After it’s installed, GNS3 itself ca be unpacked.
yum -y install PyQt4 telnet tar -xjf GNS3-0.8.3.1-src.tar.bz2 cd GNS3-0.8.3.1-src/ python2.7 setup.py build sudo python2.7 setup.py setup
For linking GNS3 and dynamips you have to have the latter installed. Not an easy task on F17. You can’t just yum install dynamips, because it requires a legacy library libpcap.so.0.9 which couldn’t be found by myself.
[root@hp opt]# yum install dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Examining dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm: dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386
Marking dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm to be installed
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package dynamips.i386 0:0.2.8RC2-1 will be installed
--> Processing Dependency: libpcap.so.0.9 for package: dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Package: dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386 (/dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386)
Requires: libpcap.so.0.9
You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
But you could do the installation manually, and add symlink to the legacy lib just to be on a safe side
rpm -i --nodeps dynamips-0.2.8RC2-1.i386.rpm ln -s /usr/lib/libpcap.so.1.2.1 /usr/lib/libpcap.so.0.9