Manually download packer
https://www.packer.io/downloads.html
# manullay
echo $GOPATH
/home/pmichalec/hg2g/workspace-go
cd /home/pmichalec/hg2g/workspace-go/src/github.com/mitchellh/packer
make updatedeps
make
For vcenter support download plugins and locate in /usr/local
If you want to use VMware Player then you need "VMware VIX API" (from the Player download page) installed to give you vmrun
If you're missing vmware-vdiskmanager or qemu-img run apt-get install qemu-utils
apt-get install qemu-utils