Installing NS-3 in Ubuntu 12.04
If you are reading this post, then I presume you already know what NS-3 is. I am going to skip the details and will show you how to install and configure NS3 in Ubuntu 12.04. For more details, see the detailed installation guide here.
Open a terminal and run the following commands to install the list of required packages (you may not need all the packages):
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ python sudo apt-get install gcc g++ python python-dev sudo apt-get install mercurial sudo apt-get install bzr sudo apt-get install gdb valgrind
sudo apt-get install gsl-bin libgsl0-dev libgsl0ldbl sudo apt-get install flex bison libfl-dev sudo apt-get install g++-3.4 gcc-3.4 sudo apt-get install tcpdump sudo apt-get install sqlite sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev sudo apt-get install vtun lxc sudo apt-get install uncrustify sudo apt-get install doxygen graphviz imagemagick sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra sudo apt-get install python-sphinx dia sudo apt-get install python-pygraphviz python-kiwi python-pygoocanvas libgoocanvas-dev sudo apt-get install libboost-signals-dev libboost-filesystem-dev sudo apt-get install openmpi*
You can either download and build development version or get a tarball directly and untar it. I would recommend you to choose the second option initially.
Option 1: Using Mercurial
cd mkdir repos cd repos hg clone http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-allinone
Option 2: Downloading NS-3 using a tarball
cd mkdir tarballs cd tarballs wget http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.13.tar.bz2 tar xjf ns-allinone-3.13.tar.bz2
To build your NS-3, run the following command:
./build.py
Configuration with Waf:
./waf distclean
./waf configure // (or use this > ./waf configure –enable-examples –enable-tests)
./waf build
Now, test your installation using:
./test.py // or use this ( if you want to test core modules only) > ./test.py -c core
Get ready to run your program. You need waf (a python based framework designed for configuring, compiling and installing applications). Use the following command to run your program:
./waf – -run filename
Your program must be in /scratch directory, because when you run waf they are build at the same time. For example, I am copying a myfirst.cc from a example directory to scratch directory to run the program. Go to your ns directory and run the command to copy, configure and run:
cp examples/tutorial/first.cc scratch/myfirst.cc
./waf
./waf –run scratch/myfirst
If you do everything correctly, you should be able to see the following in your command line.
Waf: Entering directory ‘/home/user/repos/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build’
Waf: Leaving directory ‘/home/userrepos/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build’
’build’ finished successfully (1.175s)
Sent 1024 bytes to 10.1.1.2
Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.1.1 Received 1024 bytes from 10.1.1.2
If you have something to visualize run the command : ./waf –run scratch/your_program –visualize, and to plot your output use: ./waf –run scratch/your_program | gnuplot
