A Short installation guide for NS 2.

30 on LINUX
Krishna Chaitanya Thirumalasetty The Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA - USA thirumalasetty@ieee.org December 3, 2006
NS 2.30 depends on several external components. Most of them come with Allinone package. In order to compile NS 2.30 we need TCl8.4, TK8.4 and there developers kits. It can installed using the following command in the Terminal window: sudo apt-get install tcl8.4 sudo apt-get install tcl8.4-dev sudo apt-get install tk8.4 sudo apt-get install tk8.4-dev Once you have the TCl/TK and the developer kits, NS2 is ready to be built. I recommend to download NS2.30 all-in-one package, which comes with all the neccesary components required. It also containes a precongured install script - wich complies, congure Ns2.30 and all its components. You can download it from the ns2 website http://isi.edu/nsnam/ns/. Once the tar le is download on the desktop, move it to the HOME directory. Then run the following script to unzip and install. tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.30 cd ns-allinone-2.30 ./install At the end of the compilation, a list of path variables that need to be added to the PATh environment will be displayed. Follow the instructions and run the validation test. Now, you are ready to use NS-2.30 on your computer. Here are a set of links, that will help you understand NS2 better. 1. Marx Greiss Tutorial http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/index.html 2. NS for Beginners - by Altman and Jimenez http://www-sop.inria.fr/maestro/personnel/Eitan.Altman/COURS-NS/n3.pdf 3. NS by Example http://nile.wpi.edu/NS/