Installation of NS2 (ns-allinone-2.35) on Ubuntu 14.04

Following steps are the guide to install ns2 in windows after the ubuntu (linux) installation.

» Step-1. Install the follwing software before installing NS2 sudo apt-get install tcl8.5-dev tk8.5-dev sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake sudo apt-get install perl xgraph libxt-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev

» Step-2. Download ns2 from the following link http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-build.html

» Step-3. Extract ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz into the home dirctory (/home/admin admin is username given in system) using the follwing command . tar -zxvf ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz -C /home/admin

» Step-4. Install NS2 using the follwing command cd /home/anupamj/ns-allinone-2.35 sudo ./install>

» Step-5. Set PATH environment as follows 1. You MUST put /home/admin /ns-allinone-2.35/otcl-1.14, /home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/lib, into your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. If it complains about X libraries, add path to your X libraries into LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you are using csh, you can set it like: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH <paths> If you are using sh, you can set it like: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<paths> 2. You MUST put /home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/library into your TCL_LIBRARY environmental variable. Otherwise ns/nam will complain during startup.

» Step-6. Modify .bahrc vi /home/admin/.bashrc Go to the last line and add the scripts below: export PATH=$PATH:/home/stan/ns-allinone-2.35/bin:/home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/unix:/home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/tk8.5.10/unix export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/otcl-1.14:/home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/lib export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIBRARY:/home/admin/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/library Enable the path setting:

» Step-7. Successful Installation of ns2 can be verified using the following command cd ns-2.35; ./validate

» For trouble shooting, please first read ns problems page http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html.