Installation Steps for ns-2.34 on ubuntu 10.

10 METHOD 1: {easy-quick start-not recommended}

Installing NS2.34 in Ubuntu 10.10 through the Terminal is like sliding a cube of ice. All you have to so is to run the following command in Terminal: First update the Ubuntu repos: $ sudo apt-get update Then comes the installation: $ sudo apt-get install ns2 nam xgraph This single command is enough to install the NS2.34 along with Network Animator(NAM) and graph plotting tool Xgraph. After this whenever you need to run a tcl script just type the following from the location where you have the tcl script: $ ns somefile.tcl Though this is a simple method, it has two major drawbacks. First and foremost, the files that constitute the NS aren't installed, or atleast I havent found them yet ever since I installed it. This hinders the commonly done task of fine-tuning its constituent files for achieving major results. Second, if, after installing NS through method 1, you install NS through method2, you should be a prepared for a headache. The NS executable installed through method 1 places a NS executable in the location /usr/bin/. Installing NS through method2 generates another NS executable that is placed in some local folder(say /home/user/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/).You may generate a new NS executable by recompiling its sources everytime you do changes to the NS files in the local folder. So when you execute a tcl script you should normally expect to see the NS in the local folder executing over the tcl script, but unfortunately, the NS in /usr/bin/ is what that would be acting on the tcl script and on the NS files, resulting in incorrect results. To get rid of this problem try uninstalling through the following command the NS that was installed through the Terminal. $ sudo apt-get autoremove ns2

METHOD 2 : {Little longer-highly recommended}

This method is the one where many noobs usually get stuck. But worry not! Just follow the steps explained here. Step 1 : Download the ns-allinone-2.34 from this site: http://bit.ly/downloadns Step 2 : Place the ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz package in your home folder(/home/micman in my case). Right click the package and extract the contents in the same folder. Step 3: Next, open the Terminal (Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal)

Step 4: Change to ns-allinone2.34 directory $ cd /home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34 Step 5: First install all the dependencies $ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmudev gcc-4.3 NS2.34 installs smoothly with gcc compiler version 4.3. By default, Ubuntu10.10 ships with gcc4.4.5. So we use a downgraded compiler version for the installation. This is done as follows : Edit Makefile.in found at this location ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13/Makefile.in as follows: Find the line that says: CC= @CC@ and change it to: CC= gcc-4.3 Step 6 : Begin ns2.34 installation $ sudo su # ./install step7: Once the installation is successful i.e without any errors, we need to add the path information to the file /home/micman/.bashrc $ sudo gedit ~/.bashrc I remind you once again that micman is my username, replace it with your username. Step 8: Append the following lines to the file /home/micman/.bashrc (after replacing the instances where you find micman with your username) # LD_LIBRARY_PATH OTCL_LIB=/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13 NS2_LIB=/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/lib X11_LIB=/usr/X11R6/lib USR_LOCAL_LIB=/usr/local/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB: $X11_LIB:$USR_LOCAL_LIB # TCL_LIBRARY TCL_LIB=/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library USR_LIB=/usr/lib export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB # PATH XGRAPH=/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/home/micman/ns-allinone2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix #the above two lines beginning from xgraph and ending with unix should come on the same line NS=/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/ NAM=/home/micman/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.14/ PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM Step 9 : For the changes to take effect immediately, do the following: $ sudo su # source /home/micman/.bashrc or simply quit the Terminal and open it again.