NS2 Installation on UNIX based system (Daily Snapshot)

1. Download Tcl/Tk from http://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/

shell> wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tcl8.4.15-src.tar.gz
shell> wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/tcl/tk8.4.15-src.tar.gz

2. Download daily NS2 from http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/daily/

shell> wget http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/daily/nam-1-XXXXXXXX.tar.gz
shell> wget http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/daily/ns-2-XXXXXXXX.tar.gz
shell> wget http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/daily/otcl-XXXXXXXX.tar.gz
shell> wget http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/dist/daily/tclcl-XXXXXXXX.tar.gz

3. De-compress all file in custom directory (ex: ~/ns-daily-2.31/)

4. Recommand touch a file for the version of ns2

shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/> touch 20070815

5. Using following shell script to configure and make files

install.sh
[code]
#!/bin/bash

# tcl
cd tcl8.4.15/unix
./configure --enable-shared
make
cd ../..

# tk
cd tk8.4.15/unix
./configure --enable-shared
make
cd ../..

# otcl
cd otcl
./configure --disable-static --with-tcl-ver=8.4.15 --with-tk-ver=8.4.15
make
cd ..

# tclcl
cd tclcl
./configure --disable-static --with-tcl-ver=8.4.15 --with-tk-ver=8.4.15
make
cd ..

# ns-2
cd ns-2
./configure --disable-static --with-tcl-ver=8.4.15 --with-tk-ver=8.4.15 \
--with-otcl=../otcl --with-tclcl=../tclcl
make
cd ..

# nam-1
cd nam-1
./configure --disable-static --with-tcl-ver=8.4.15 --with-tk-ver=8.4.15 \
--with-otcl=../otcl --with-tclcl=../tclcl
make
cd ..

echo "Installation complete"
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If this fail, try Distribution Specific instructions

If this error for file pcap.h not existed, install libpcapX.X-dev

If this success, only needing to upgrade OTcl, TclCL, ns-2 and nam-1 in the future

6. Create soft link for needing files

shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/> mkdir bin
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/> mkdir lib
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/> cd bin
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/bin/> ln -s ../ns-2/ns .
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/bin/> ln -s ../nam-1/nam .
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/bin/> cd ../lib/
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/lib/> ln -s ../tcl8.4.15/unix/libtcl8.4.so .
shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/lib/> ln -s ../tk8.4.15/unix/libtk8.4.so .

7. Add following setting to set NS2 environment

.bashrc
[code]
# NS2 environment
PATH=/home/USER/ns-daily-2.31/bin:$PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/USER/ns-daily-2.31/bin:/home/USER/ns-daily-2.31/lib
TCL_LIBRARY=/home/USER/ns/ns-daily-2.31/tcl8.4.15/library
export PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH TCL_LIBRARY
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8. Make Documentation

shell:~/ns-daily-2.31/ns-2/doc> make

If you want to create html documentation, install latex2html firstly