There are tremendous references on how to install NS2 (http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/), such as this and this. This is just yet another one.
Core
- Prepare a Debian system. I chose Debian Sid as of Feb 8, 2006
- Install some essential things by apt-get:
apt-get install tcl8.4 tk8.4 tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev
- Obtain
ns-allinone-2.29.2.tar.gz
from the repository. See http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ for download instructions - Find a place (e.g.
/opt
) to untar the all-in-one package
tar zxf ns-allinone-2.29.2.tar.gz
- Compile otcl from the source:
cd octl-1.11
- Patch the file
configure
with otcl-1.11-patch.txt ./configure && make
cd ..
- Compile tclcl from the source:
cd tclcl-1.17 && ./configure && make && cd ..
- Modify
ns-2.29/configure
:
Look for the blockTK_H_PLACES
and then add the line/usr/include/tcl$TK_VERS \
simply speaking, use this patch: ns2.29-patch.txt
- Compile ns:
cd ns-2.29 && ./configure && make
- Validate the ns compilation (caution: take an hour to do):
./validate
nam
apt-get install libxmu-dev
cd nam-1.11
./configure && make
Clean-up
Clean up for the unused:
rm -rf tcl8.4.11 tk8.4.11 xgraph-12.1 zlib-1.2.3