Installing NS 2

by Teerawat Issariyakul
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March 2010

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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
NS2 DOES NOT work under the following
environment.

Window platform: Ubuntu platform:

o version XP and 7 o version 9.10
o NS2 version: 2.33 and o gcc version 4.4.1
2.34
o Cygwin 1.5.25 and 1.7.1
o gcc version 3.4.4-999

Possible cause: gcc version!

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Working Solution
These two solutions are tested. They DO WORK!!

Window platform: Ubuntu platform:

o version XP and 7 o version 8.04
o NS2 version: 2.35 o NS2 version 2.33 and
o Cygwin1.7.1 2.34
o gcc version 4.3.4 o gcc version 4.2.4

Note: ns-2.35 checks for gcc4 and gcc4-g++

rather than gcc and gcc-g++
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Step-by-Step Installation
Ubuntu: please see my previous post
http://
www.ns2ultimate.com/post/439346614/working-co
mbination-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
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Installing Cygwin 1.7.1
1. Go to cygwin.com

click here to
get file
“setup.exe”

2. Run the file

“setup.exe”

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2. Run the file “setup.exe”

Keep hitting
next and
provide
directory
information

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3. When you hit this page, choose the required
(e.g., gcc4) and optional packages
Search the
package
name here

Expand
package Click here to
category by install all the
clicking ‘+’ optional
package

When you are done, hit ‘next’

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4. Open Cygwin
5. Download and extract ns2allinone2.35-RC3 package
5. Extract the package by calling

»tar -xvf ns-allinone-2.34-RC3.tar.gz

6. When done, call

»cd ns-allinone-2.35-RC3
»./install

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7. 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
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8. Test whether the install is alright by typing ns

An NS command prompt % should appear on the

screen, and you are done!

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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/).

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For more information about NS
2

Please see this book from Springer

T. Issaraiyakul and E. Hossain, “Introduction to
Network Simulator NS2”, Springer 2009

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