NS2 on Ubuntu 9.10

To install The Network Simulator - ns-2 we need to bit of circus.

Install dependencies : $ sudo apt-get install libpcap-dev gcc-4.3 g++-4.3 tcl tk tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev xorg-dev sgb

By default gcc version is 4.4, but has ns2 compiles well only will 4.3 we need to downgrade gcc !

Backup the current links and update symbolic links : $ sudo mv gcc gcc.old $ sudo mv i486-linux-gnu-gcc i486-linux-gnu-gcc.old $ sudo ln -s gcc-4.3 gcc $ sudo ln -s gcc-4.3 i486-linux-gnu-gcc

Download and Install ns2: $ wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nsnam/files/allinone/ns-allinone-2.33.tar.gz/download $ sudo tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.33.tar.gz $ sudo cd ns-allinone-2.33 $ sudo ./install

P.S : In case of nay issues with gcc or g++ restore the backup