How to Install NS2 Software

Time needed: 5 minutes

Follow from Step 1 to Step 12 in order to create NS2 using Simulation projects. Quick guide to create NS2 simulation. Reach us , if you want an customize NS2 simulation projects works for scholars.

1. System requirements

   For install the NS-2.35 , we need the following minimum system requirements.
   1)OS : ubuntu-14.04 LTS(32 bit)
   2)RAM :minimum 2GB
   3)Processor: 2.5 GHz and above

2. Download the NS-2.35

   Download the ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz package from the following url,
   https://osdn.net/projects/sfnet_nsnam/downloads/allinone/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz/

3. Open the terminal and verify the installed package

   Initially,Next open the terminal by press ctrl+alt+T buttons or search from the installed software list.

4. Required packages installation

   To install prerequisites typeand execute the given below command
   sudo apt-get install gcc g++ python python-dev mercurial bzr gdb valgrind gsl-bin libgsl0-dev libgsl0ldbl flex bison tcpdump sqlite sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev libxml2 libxml2-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev uncrustify doxygen graphviz imagemagick texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-generic-extra texlive-generic-recommended texinfo dia texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-extra-utils texlive-generic-recommended texi2html python-pygraphviz python-kiwi python-pygoocanvas libgoocanvas-dev python-pygccxml

5. Change the location by using cd command

   After download the ns-allinone-2.35.tar copy and paste into ubuntu Home location then extract the ns-allinone-2.35.tar file
   next terminal to type the command:
   cd ns-allinone-2.35/

6. Execute the command

   Execute the command -> sudo ./install

7. Execute NS2 command

   Execute the NS2 command cd ns-2.35

8. Execute configure command

   Execute the configure command sudo ./configure

9. Execute make command

   Execute make command cd ns-2.35 – make

10. Install the nam package

    we can install the nam package from execute the following command. The nam package used to perform the net animator process, which is used to present the network simulation process.
    sudo apt-get install nam

11. Install xgraph packages

    we can install the xgraph package from execute the following command. The xgraph package used to generate the result graphs based on the auto generated trace file , which is based on the simulation.
    sudo apt-get install xgraph

12. Install ffmpeg

    we can install the ffmpeg package from execute the following command. The ffmpeg package used to perform the video based simulation process.
    sudo apt-get install ffmpeg