Nov 9, 2009

How to install ns-2.34 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala



If you are planning to install the latest ns-2.34 on Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala, here are some basic steps

1. Download ns-allinone-2.34.tar from here.

2. Place it in somewhere, e.g. /home/simulator, then extract it.
$ cd /home/simulator
$ tar -xvf ns-allinone-2.34.tar


3. Download & install some packages from repository
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev

4. Install the ns2
$ cd ns-allinone-2.34
$ ./install


5. You might face problem with the installation of otcl-1.13, the problem can be due to the gcc-4.4.1 / g++-4.4.1 compilers. But please try this :

sudo apt-get install g++-4.3
CC=gcc-4.3 CXX=g++-4.3 ./install


try to edit the Makefile.in too

From :
CC= @CC@

to :
CC= gcc-4.3


6. Edit some paths ==a
$ gedit ~/.bashrc

Put these lines on that file. Off course, you might change /home/simulator for it depends on where you extract ns-allinone-2.34.tar.
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH
OTCL_LIB=/home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13
NS2_LIB=/home/simulator/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/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library
USR_LIB=/usr/lib
export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB

# PATH
XGRAPH=/home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix
NS=/home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/
NAM=/home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.13/
export PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM


7. Validate it
$ cd ns-2.34
$ ./validate


7. (Optionally) You can create a symlink, so that ns can be called from everywhere
$ sudo ln -s /home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/ns /usr/bin/ns

8. Try to run it.
$ ns

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19 comments:

ra9ftm said...

Thank you for your post! Really nice to see this.

Jorge Llantoy said...

Thank, it really helped

Unknown said...

Obrigado pela ajuda

myusgun said...

Thank you so much

farah fazrin said...

hello sir, i have one question about running the code in ns-2. i try to run the code for ieee 802.15.4 in ns 2.27 but there is an error where invalid command for 802_15_4. i have no idea on how to solve it.hope you can help me on solve it. thanks..

rajesh said...

hi,
i have done all the steps you mentioned till editing the bashrc file...
then on runnning validate the result is lways "ns: not found" for all the testings

then i browsed through the directories strangely there is no ns directory in the path /home/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34 i downloaded the same file available on your blog

Adiya Lodha said...

thank you.
ur blog really helped me out to install ns-allinone-2.34 on ubuntu 9.10.

really appreciate ur work.

the only problem i found is nam-1.13, which is nam-1.14 in ns-allinone-2.34.
only this much change is there.

everything else works fine......

Anonymous said...

hi... all..

i am installing ns-2 since two months, but i always found 'ns: command not found', i don't know how its happens always.
i read lot of blogs do this, do that, i tried all, but no result.
i also found new things there is no ns/usr/bin folder in ns-2.34.
so please help me, how to come out from this problem.

Unknown said...

mosisa

oh! appreciate ur work it done..
thanks
but on step 8 i cant run by giving $ns
i hope u can solve it

Kiyan said...

thank you for your useful post.

tnchethan said...

Hello sir,

I followed your steps while installing NS2 in ubuntu 9.10, but got some error while creating make file. The error is:
Creating make file
Make; warning: file "/home/ubuntu/simulator/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix/Make/bin/sh' has modification time 3.3e+08 s in the future.

please give solutions to this error.

chethan said...

hello sir I have installed ns-2.34 in ubuntu but not succesful while installing it. For next installation whether I need to uninstall the previously installed or just Deleting ns directory can uninstall our previous installation. So, please guide us to uninstall.

Lassitude said...

is there a good analysis program for the .tr output files or do I have to write my own?

Pragya said...
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Anonymous said...

Thank you it was very helpful!!

Pragya said...

Hey, your post was really helpful in installing ns2.
Now, I want to uninstall it. Can you tell me how to go about it??

Thanks

Anonymous said...

WHEN INSTALL NS2
fatal error X11/X.H NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY

PLEASE HELP

Unknown said...

Hello, that's very very nice of you, that was some real helpful job, thank you so much !!!!!! :))))))))))

Pawan said...

Thank you very much for your help....I just had a generic query....Where to put all these commands ? i.e. Should I use TCL interface or Unix environment to write and execute them ?

Thanks,