NS-2 Installation on ubuntu

NS-2 INSTALLATION ON UBUNTU:

First download the file and unzip it

$ wget http://nchc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nsnam/ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz

$ tar -xzvf ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz

$ cd ns-allinone-2.34

Prepare the environment and install it will take a lot of time.

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev

$ ./install

For ubuntu 9.10, export the gcc-4.3

$ export CC=gcc-4.3

Set the environment variable so that our xgraph and nam will work properly

$ gedit ~/.bashrc

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH

OTCL_LIB=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13

NS2_LIB=/your/path/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=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library

USR_LIB=/usr/lib

export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB

# PATH

XGRAPH=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix

NS=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/

NAM=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.14/

PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM

$ source ~/.bashrc

For the validation

$ ./validate