For Ubuntu 9.

10 (karmic), you may encounter this error in the linking of otcl:

otcl.o: In function `OTclDispatch': /home/ns/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl/otcl.c:495: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail_local' otcl.o: In function `Otcl_Init': /home/ns/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl/otcl.c:2284: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail_local' ld: libotcl.so: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' isn't defined ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output make: *** [libotcl.so] Error 1

This error is because the linker being used is "ld -shared" instead of "gcc -shared". If you edit one line in otcl-1.13/configure, and rerun install, it should work:
--- configure.orig 2009-11-02 12:14:52.556167945 -0800 +++ configure 2009-11-02 12:17:28.966706099 -0800 @@ -6301,7 +6301,7 @@ ;; Linux*) SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fpic" SHLIB_LD="ld -shared" + SHLIB_LD="gcc -shared" SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so" DL_LIBS="-ldl" SHLD_FLAGS=""

This will be fixed in future revisions of ns-2. f (int_m == m) { + resultPower = ErlangRandomVariable(Pr/m, int_m).value(); + } else { + resultPower = GammaRandomVariable(m, Pr/m).value(); + } + return resultPower; + }

NS-2.34 installation in Ubuntu 12.04

Follow the below given steps: Download ns-allinnone-2.34 from nasam website http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/files/ns-2
Create a folder in home with name ns2

Extract the tar file in ns2

Open terminal and type cd ns2/ns-allinone-2.34

Install required libraries for ns2 using terminal sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev

Then, sudo ./install

For errors, 1. ld: libotcl.so: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' isn't defined ld: final link failed: Bad value make: *** [libotcl.so] Error 1 otcl-1.13 make failed! Exiting ... Solution: In otcl-1.13/configure, line number 6304 -SHLIB_LD="ld -shared" +SHLIB_LD="gcc -shared" 2. tools/ranvar.cc: In member function virtual double GammaRandomVariable::value(): tools/ranvar.cc:219:70: error: cannot call constructor GammaRandomVariable::GammaRandomVariable directly [-fpermissive] tools/ranvar.cc:219:70: error: for a function-style cast, remove the redundant ::GammaRandomVariable [-fpermissive] make: *** [tools/ranvar.o] Error 1 Solution: In ns-2.34/tools/ranvar.cc, line 219 -return GammaRandomVariable::GammaRandomVariable(1.0 + alpha_, beta_).value() * pow (u, 1.0 / alpha_); +return GammaRandomVariable(1.0 + alpha_, beta_).value() * pow (u, 1.0 / alpha_); 3. In file included from mac/mac-802_11Ext.cc:66:0: mac/mac-802_11Ext.h: In member function u_int32_t PHY_MIBExt::getHdrLen11(): mac/mac-802_11Ext.h:175:19: error: expected primary-expression before struct mac/mac-802_11Ext.h:175:41: error: dh_body was not declared in this scope mac/mac-802_11Ext.h:175:51: error: offsetof was not declared in this scope mac/mac-802_11Ext.h:177:3: warning: control reaches end of non-void function [-Wreturn-type] make: *** [mac/mac-802_11Ext.o] Error 1 Ns make failed! Solution: In mac/mac-802_Ext.h, line 65 +#include<cstddef> 4. mobile/nakagami.cc: In member function virtual double Nakagami::Pr(PacketStamp*, PacketStamp*, WirelessPhy*):

mobile/nakagami.cc:183:73: error: cannot call constructor ErlangRandomVariable::ErlangRandomVariable directly [-fpermissive] mobile/nakagami.cc:183:73: error: for a function-style cast, remove the redundant ::ErlangRandomVariable [-fpermissive] mobile/nakagami.cc:185:67: error: cannot call constructor GammaRandomVariable::GammaRandomVariable directly [-fpermissive] mobile/nakagami.cc:185:67: error: for a function-style cast, remove the redundant ::GammaRandomVariable [-fpermissive] make: *** [mobile/nakagami.o] Error 1 Solution: In ns-2.34/mobile/nakagami.cc, Line no. -if (int_m == m) { resultPower = ErlangRandomVariable::ErlangRandomVariable(Pr/m, int_m).value(); } else { resultPower = GammaRandomVariable::GammaRandomVariable(m, Pr/m).value(); } return resultPower; - } +if (int_m == m) { + resultPower = ErlangRandomVariable(Pr/m, int_m).value(); + } else { + resultPower = GammaRandomVariable(m, Pr/m).value(); + } + return resultPower; + } Path Setup:
In terminal sudo gedit ~/.bash_aliases

Then copy the following path and modify according to your system path
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH OTCL_LIB=/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13 NS2_LIB=/home/ramakrishna/ns2/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:$USR_LOCAL_LIB # TCL_LIBRARY TCL_LIB=/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library USR_LIB=/usr/lib export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB # PATH XGRAPH=/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix NS=/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/ NAM=/home/ramakrishna/ns2/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.14/ PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM

 Save the file and type source ~/.bash_aliases

Now if you type ns in terminal it will show % symbol