Monday, 5 May 2014

INSTALLING NS3 IN UBUNTU 12.10 AND ABOVE

 ns-3 is a network simulator for Internet systems, targeted primarily for research and educational use.You should install ns3 on any linux platform like ubuntu.If you want help about how to install ubuntu using pendrive you can refer to this link.

 once ubuntu is installed run following command opening your terminal(ctrl+alt+T).

 To install prerequisites-

 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 


 (now make sure you have not run sudo su to be superuser)
Downloading NS-3(ns-3 version 3.19 not 3.13)
   cd  

   mkdir ns3
   cd ns3
   wget http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2
   tar xjf ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2
   cd ns-allinone-3.19/
   ls
 
 
Then you can find build.py along with other files.
Then to build the examples in ns-3 run 
 
   ./build.py --enable-examples --enable-tests
 
If the build is successful then it will give output
 "Build finished successfully".(clap for yourself)
 
 Now run the following command to configure with waf(build tool)
 
 ./waf -d debug --enable-examples --enable-tests configure


To build with waf(optional)


 


./waf


 


To test everything allright


 


./test.py


 


If the tests are ok the installation is done. :)


 












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  1. Unknown3 July 2014 at 05:42
    Very use full ..thank you so much ....
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  2. okiteguh5 August 2014 at 18:37
    thanks a lot..your tutorial very usefull, for the first time me successed the installation
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    1. Unknown17 August 2014 at 14:34
      welcme okiteguh...thanx fr using blog....u can ask questns if any prblm....
      Delete
  3. Salman28 August 2014 at 23:02
    Kudos for ur work ...
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  4. emad6 September 2014 at 23:42
    Great Thanks :)
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  5. Unknown24 September 2014 at 06:07
    how to get netanim?
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  6. Amey Vajpeyi25 September 2014 at 00:19
    is there any way to run ns3 on windows ??
    is ns3 for windows available????
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  7. Unknown2 October 2014 at 20:47
    very interesting 
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  8. Unknown2 December 2014 at 08:17
    Hi....when i try to install the prerequisites i encounter the following errors :
    E: Package 'python-dev' has no installation candidate
    E: Unable to locate package mercurial
    E: Unable to locate package bzr
    E: Unable to locate package valgrind
    E: Unable to locate package gsl-bin
    E: Unable to locate package libgsl0-dev
    E: Unable to locate package libgsl0ldbl
    E: Package 'flex' has no installation candidate
    E: Package 'bison' has no installation candidate
    E: Unable to locate package sqlite
    E: Unable to locate package sqlite3
    E: Unable to locate package libsqlite3-dev
    E: Unable to locate package libxml2-dev
    E: Unable to locate package libgtk2.0-dev
    E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgtk2.0-dev'
    E: Unable to locate package uncrustify
    E: Unable to locate package doxygen
    E: Package 'graphviz' has no installation candidate
    E: Package 'imagemagick' has no installation candidate
    E: Unable to locate package texlive
    E: Unable to locate package texlive-latex-extra
    E: Unable to locate package texlive-generic-extra
    E: Unable to locate package texlive-generic-recommended
    E: Package 'texinfo' has no installation candidate
    E: Unable to locate package dia
    E: Unable to locate package texlive
    E: Unable to locate package texlive-latex-extra
    E: Unable to locate package texlive-extra-utils
    E: Unable to locate package texlive-generic-recommended
    E: Unable to locate package texi2html
    E: Unable to locate package python-pygraphviz
    E: Unable to locate package python-kiwi
    E: Unable to locate package python-pygoocanvas
    E: Unable to locate package libgoocanvas-dev
    E: Unable to locate package python-pygccxml

    what should i do ?
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    1. Nikhil Kedia1 February 2015 at 20:14
      This happened with me too. It happens if ur thing is not rooted.
      Try "sudo -s" to root
      and then "apt -get update"

      If this doesn't help, refer these links:
      http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1853026

      http://askubuntu.com/questions/162879/how-to-fix-could-not-open-lock-file-because-permission-denied
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    2. dh(n)oa charar protishruti12 March 2015 at 00:05
      Even after trying sudo -s to get to the root, i am getting the same erros as alin specified. 

      The errors are 

      Note, selecting 'rsyslog' instead of 'linux-kernel-log-daemon'
      Note, selecting 'pulseaudio' instead of 'pulseaudio-module-rygel-media-server'
      Note, selecting 'linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic' instead of 'linux-image'
      Note, selecting 'linux-image-3.5.0-17-generic' instead of 'linux-image-3.0'
      Note, selecting 'libgphoto2-port0' instead of 'libgphoto2port'
      Package python-dev is not available, but is referred to by another package.
      This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
      is only available from another source
      However the following packages replace it:
        python

      Package texinfo is not available, but is referred to by another package.
      This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
      is only available from another source
      However the following packages replace it:
        info install-info

      Package imagemagick is not available, but is referred to by another package.
      This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
      is only available from another source

      Package graphviz is not available, but is referred to by another package.
      This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
      is only available from another source

      Package flex is not available, but is referred to by another package.
      This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
      is only available from another source

      Package bison is not available, but is referred to by another package.
      This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
      is only available from another source

      E: Package 'python-dev' has no installation candidate
      E: Unable to locate package mercurial
      E: Unable to locate package bzr
      E: Unable to locate package valgrind
      E: Unable to locate package gsl-bin
      E: Unable to locate package libgsl0-dev
      E: Unable to locate package libgsl0ldbl
      E: Package 'flex' has no installation candidate
      E: Package 'bison' has no installation candidate
      E: Unable to locate package sqlite
      E: Unable to locate package sqlite3
      E: Unable to locate package libsqlite3-dev
      E: Unable to locate package libxml2-dev
      E: Unable to locate package libgtk2.0-dev
      E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libgtk2.0-dev'
      E: Unable to locate package uncrustify
      E: Unable to locate package doxygen
      E: Package 'graphviz' has no installation candidate
      E: Package 'imagemagick' has no installation candidate
      E: Unable to locate package texlive
      E: Unable to locate package texlive-latex-extra
      E: Unable to locate package texlive-generic-extra
      E: Unable to locate package texlive-generic-recommended
      E: Package 'texinfo' has no installation candidate
      E: Unable to locate package dia
      E: Unable to locate package texlive
      E: Unable to locate package texlive-latex-extra
      E: Unable to locate package texlive-extra-utils
      E: Unable to locate package texlive-generic-recommended
      E: Unable to locate package texi2html
      E: Unable to locate package python-pygraphviz
      E: Unable to locate package python-kiwi
      E: Unable to locate package python-pygoocanvas
      E: Unable to locate package libgoocanvas-dev
      E: Unable to locate package python-pygccxml
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    3. dh(n)oa charar protishruti12 March 2015 at 02:13
      After downloading nsallinone-3.13 i got this error after giving command
       tar xjf ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2

      error
      tar (child): ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2: Cannot open: No such file or directory
      tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
      tar: Child returned status 2
      tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
      Delete
    4. fateh26 February 2017 at 11:05
      tar xjf ns-allinone-3.13.tar.bz2
      Delete
  9. Nikhil Kedia1 February 2015 at 20:19
    This was cool. Though there are a few bugs that users may face during installation that are not discussed. If anyone faces so: check this link out

    http://www.nsnam.org/wiki/Installation

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/162879/how-to-fix-could-not-open-lock-file-because-permission-denied

    amd make sure u run sudo su before running the link on the terminal as vivita has rightly told in a section above.

    Cheers! and Kudos to you 

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  10. Unknown12 March 2015 at 14:18
    belhadj@ubuntu:~/repos$ wget http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2
    --2015-03-12 22:15:13--  http://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2
    Resolving www.nsnam.org (www.nsnam.org)... 
    143.215.76.161
    Connecting to www.nsnam.org (www.nsnam.org)|143.215.76.161|:80... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
    Location: https://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2 [following]
    --2015-03-12 22:15:14--  https://www.nsnam.org/release/ns-allinone-3.19.tar.bz2
    Connecting to www.nsnam.org (www.nsnam.org)|143.215.76.161|:443... connected.
    ERROR: cannot verify www.nsnam.org's certificate, issued by `/C=BE/O=GlobalSign nv-sa/CN=GlobalSign Domain Validation CA - SHA256 - G2':
      Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
    To connect to www.nsnam.org insecurely, use `--no-check-certificate'.
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  11. mindernetwork13 March 2015 at 11:22
    what is the solution to this bash: ./test.py: No such file or directory in ns3
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  12. amrutha_nookala11 May 2015 at 07:05
    Thanks a ton! Works fine :D
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  13. Mohsin16 October 2015 at 13:31
    how to check whether ns3 is installed or not in terminal
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  14. Unknown23 November 2015 at 14:56
    sudo: unable to change to sudoers gid: Operation not permitted
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  15. Unknown20 January 2016 at 02:14
    please,give command step by step so, new user can easily understand...
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  16. Unknown11 February 2016 at 20:03
    Thanku....very much
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  17. Chanel Amanimana7 March 2016 at 08:32
    thanks alot for the help
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  18. Unknown11 April 2016 at 13:59
    This comment has been removed by the author.
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  19. Unknown11 April 2016 at 14:00
    thanks a lot. this is great!!!!
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    1. Unknown28 April 2016 at 06:57
      This comment has been removed by the author.
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  20. Unknown28 April 2016 at 06:56
    what i do after i copy the text in the terminal
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  21. Unknown8 July 2016 at 06:22
    hi while running following command "  ./build.py --enable-examples --enable-tests "  i m getting build failed ... so what to do for that ??? could you please help me
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  22. Unknown20 July 2016 at 02:01
    How to run aodv routing protocol in ns3?
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  23. Unknown9 August 2016 at 12:36
    there are two dependencies not included, libqwt5-qt4-dev qt4-qmake, its for compile netanim, on ubuntu 14.04 and ns_3.25.
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  24. Unknown18 August 2016 at 05:17
    bash: ./waf: No such file or directory
    What shall I do?
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  25. Kishan Sagathiya23 October 2016 at 06:01
    .cc file are compiling even when I run ./test.py . Is this supposed to happen?
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  26. Unknown16 November 2016 at 20:13
    should i uninstall ns2 if i want to install ns3 please mail me at ashutoshholla28@gmail.com
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  27. Quick App Technologies15 December 2016 at 18:00
    ./waf -d debug

    when i run this command it shows there is no such directory
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  28. UR22 January 2017 at 21:08
    Hi....am getting the following error while building a routing file- manet_routing_compare.cc.Please help!!!!

    [ 862/1797] Compiling scratch/gauss-markov-mobility-model.cc
    ../scratch/gauss-markov-mobility-model.cc:25:41: fatal error: gauss-markov-mobility-model.h: No such file or directory
     #include "gauss-markov-mobility-model.h"
                                             ^
    compilation terminated.

    Waf: Leaving directory `/home/usha/repos/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build'
    Build failed
     -> task in 'gauss-markov-mobility-model' failed (exit status 1): 
     {task 3065829516L: cxx gauss-markov-mobility-model.cc -> gauss-markov-mobility-model.cc.5.o}
    ['/usr/bin/g++', '-O0', '-ggdb', '-g3', '-Wall', '-Werror', '-std=c++11', '-Wno-error=deprecated-declarations', '-fstrict-aliasing', '-Wstrict-aliasing', '-pthread', '-I.', '-I..', '-DNS3_BUILD_PROFILE_DEBUG', '-DNS3_ASSERT_ENABLE', '-DNS3_LOG_ENABLE', '-DHAVE_SYS_IOCTL_H=1', '-DHAVE_IF_NETS_H=1', '-DHAVE_NET_ETHERNET_H=1', '-DHAVE_PACKET_H=1', '-DHAVE_IF_TUN_H=1', '../scratch/gauss-markov-mobility-model.cc', '-c', '-o', '/home/usha/repos/ns-3-allinone/ns-3-dev/build/scratch/gauss-markov-mobility-model.cc.5.o']
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  29. Ali Ihsan ELMAS12 March 2017 at 07:28
    I get"Package 'libgsl0ldbl' has no installation candidate" error and can not fix it. Any help about it?
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  30. Say3 May 2017 at 12:07
    I got Message "Build finished successfully" but as i run next command "./waf -d debug --enable-examples --enable-tests configure" Error Comes Bash:CD ./walf no such file or directory exist
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  31. Unknown30 September 2017 at 22:44
    how to resolve this error.. please



    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree       
    Reading state information... Done
    Note, selecting 'libgsl-dev' instead of 'libgsl0-dev'
    Package libgsl0ldbl is not available, but is referred to by another package.
    This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
    is only available from another source
    However the following packages replace it:
      libgsl2 libgsl2:i386

    E: Package 'libgsl0ldbl' has no installation candidate
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  32. Unknown13 October 2017 at 02:02
    hi,
    i have problem like this, can help me?

    # Build NetAnim
    Entering directory `netanim-3.104'
     =>  qmake -v
    qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qmake': No such file or directory
    Could not find qmake in the default path
     =>  qmake-qt4 -v
    Could not find qmake-qt4 in the default path
     =>  qmake NetAnim.pro
    qmake: could not exec '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin/qmake': No such file or directory
    Error building NetAnim.
    Skipping NetAnim ....
    Leaving directory `netanim-3.104'
    # Building examples (by user request)
    # Building tests (by user request)
    # Build NS-3
    Entering directory `./ns-3.19'
     =>  /usr/bin/python waf configure --enable-examples --enable-tests --with-pybindgen ../pybindgen-0.16.0.834
    Setting top to                           : /home/ubuntu/ns3/ns-allinone-3.19/ns-3.19 
    Setting out to                           : /home/ubuntu/ns3/ns-allinone-3.19/ns-3.19/build 
    Checking for 'gcc' (c compiler)          : /usr/bin/gcc 
    Checking for cc version                  : 4.8.4 
    Checking for 'g++' (c++ compiler)        : not found 
    Checking for 'icpc' (c++ compiler)       : not found 
    could not configure a c++ compiler!
    (complete log in /home/ubuntu/ns3/ns-allinone-3.19/ns-3.19/build/config.log)
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "./build.py", line 170, in 
        sys.exit(main(sys.argv))
      File "./build.py", line 161, in main
        build_ns3(config, build_examples, build_tests, args, build_options)
      File "./build.py", line 80, in build_ns3
        run_command(cmd) # waf configure ...
      File "/home/ubuntu/ns3/ns-allinone-3.19/util.py", line 24, in run_command
        raise CommandError("Command %r exited with code %i" % (argv, retval))
    util.CommandError: Command ['/usr/bin/python', 'waf', 'configure', '--enable-examples', '--enable-tests', '--with-pybindgen', u'../pybindgen-0.16.0.834'] exited with code 1
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