Ns-2.35 Installation

Installing NS 2 by Teerawat Issariyakul http://www.ns2ultimate.com March 2010 (last updated September 2010) http://www.ns2ultimate.com

Outline
Known Issues as of March 2010
Working Solution
Step-by-Step Installation
Ubuntu
Windows
Acknowledgement
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Known Issues as of March 2010
Window platform:
version XP and 7
NS2 version: 2.33 and 2.34
Cygwin 1.5.25 and 1.7.1
gcc version 3.4.4-999
Ubuntu platform:
version 9.10
gcc version 4.4.1
NS2 DOES NOT work under the following environment.
Possible cause: gcc version!

Working Solution
Window platform:
version XP and 7
NS2 version: 2.35
Cygwin1.7.1
gcc version 4.3.4
Ubuntu platform:
version 8.04
NS2 version 2.33 and 2.34
gcc version 4.2.4
These two solutions are tested. They DO WORK !!
Note: ns-2.35 checks for gcc4 and gcc4-g++ rather than gcc and gcc-g++

Step-by-Step Installation
Ubuntu : please see my previous post
http :// www.ns2ultimate.com/post/439346614/working-combination-ns-2-34-ubuntu-8-04-and-perhaps
Windows  Use cygwin
Required package :
gcc4, gcc4-g++, gawk, tar, gzip, make, patch, perl, w32api
Graphic package :
xorg-server, xinit, libX11-devel, libXmu-devel
Graphic package if required if you would like to run graphical things like nam or Xgraph. I find them unnecessary.

Installing Cygwin 1.7.1 1. Go to cygwin.com click here to get file “ setup.exe” 2. Run the file “setup.exe” http://www.ns2ultimate.com

Installing Cygwin 1.7.1 2. Run the file “setup.exe” Keep hitting next and provide directory information http://www.ns2ultimate.com

Installing Cygwin 1.7.1 3. When you hit this page, choose the required (e.g., gcc4 ) and optional packages Search the package name here Expand package category by clicking ‘+’ Click here to install all the optional package When you are done, hit ‘next’ http://www.ns2ultimate.com

Installing NS2
4. Open Cygwin
5. Download and extract ns2allinone2.35-RC3 package
6. Go to your home directory by typing
» cd
Here, you can type pwd to see the full path of your home directory.
7. Extract the package by calling
»tar -xvf ns-allinone-2.35-RC3.tar.gz

Installing NS2 8. When done, call »cd ns-allinone-2.35-RC3 »./install 9. When the installation completes adds the followings into the file “.bashrc” located in your home directory NSHOME=~/ns-allinone-2.35-RC3 OTCL_LIB=${NSHOME}/otcl-1.14 NS2_LIB=${NSHOME}/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB export TCL_LIBRARY=${NSHOME}/tcl8.5.8/library PATH=$PATH:${NSHOME}/ns-2.35:${NSHOME}/nam-1.15 Note: Look carefully at the directory you might have to change something http://www.ns2ultimate.com

Verifying the Installation
1. Test whether t he NS2 directory should be added to the $PATH variable
Test by executing
>> echo $ PATH
Your NS2 path should be shown above.
You can now execute NS2 from any directory

Verifying the Installation 2. Now type ns An NS command prompt % should appear on the screen, and you are done! http://www.ns2ultimate.com

Troubleshooting
If it’s not working, you may create a link to ns2 executable
>>cd /usr/local/bin
>>ln –s /home/T_Bear/ns-allinone-2.35-RC3/ns-2.35/ns.exe
And, now you should be able to run ns2

Acknowledgement
I would like to acknowledge
tumblr.com, slideshare.net
Lupe Krops for useful discussion.
Aslinda Hassan for confirming the problem with gcc version.
Tom Handerson and Sidney Doria for his suggestion on ns-2.35
Chaiyut Jandang for his blog ( http://jacaranda-jandaeng.blogspot.com/2009/12/ns2-ns-234-ubuntu-904.html ) in Thai language
Sucha Supittayapornpong for introducing Slideshare.com (http://suchaxplore.blogspot.com/).

For more information about NS 2 Please see this book from Springer T. Issaraiyakul and E. Hossain, “Introduction to Network Simulator NS2”, Springer 2009 http://www.ns2ultimate.com

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