Install NS2 on Fedora 16

NS2 Pops up errors during Install on Fedora 16 due to change in GCC version 4.6.2, has some changes like it accept X() rather than X::X(), which affected ns2.

Only 3 files needs to be changed (Or download the patch below)

~ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/mobile/nakagami.cc
~ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/tools/ranvar.cc &
~ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/mac/mac-802_11Ext.h

Patch Info

~ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/mobile/nakagami.cc ( Line 183 & 185 )
--resultPower = ErlangRandomVariable::ErlangRandomVariable(Pr/m, int_m).value();
++resultPower = ErlangRandomVariable(Pr/m, int_m).value();
--resultPower = GammaRandomVariable::GammaRandomVariable(m, Pr/m).value();
++resultPower = GammaRandomVariable(m, Pr/m).value();

~ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/tools/ranvar.cc ( Line 118 )
--return GammaRandomVariable::GammaRandomVariable(1.0 + alpha_, beta_).value() * pow (u, 1.0 / alpha_);
++return GammaRandomVariable(1.0 + alpha_, beta_).value() * pow (u, 1.0 / alpha_);

~ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/mac/mac-802_11Ext.h

++#include < cstddef > #open that file and add to the header files.

Now to install Follow the normal procedure!!

The ns2 version taken here is 2.34 (ns-allinone-2.34) .Please modify to suit your version

Pre-Installation:
Before NS2 installation somepackages must be installed. Required packages are:

yum install gcc tcl-devel libX11-devel libXt-devel autoconf automake libXmu-devel

Installation:

> Uncompress the ns2 use GUI or Terminal

tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz
orion
gzip -d ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz
tar xvf ns-allinone-2.34.tar

> cd /home/username/Desktop/ns-allinone-2.34

> ./install (execute the script)

> If the installation fails in the middle, then try to install the linux packages that are missing

> Once the installation succeeded, then a set of path information will be provided by the NS2

> Set the path in the /root/.bash_profile
(vi /root/.bash_profile)

or

If you are a user home//.bash_profile

vi /home/username/.bash_profile

# User specific aliases and functions
# LD_LIBRARY_PATH
OTCL_LIB=/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13
NS2_LIB=/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB

# TCL_LIBRARY
TCL_LIB=/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library
USR_LIB=/usr/lib
export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB

# PATH
XGRAPH=/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.14/unix
NS=/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/
NAM=/home/username/Desktop/Study/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.14/
PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM

> go to the terminal and try ns or nam

> for running the examples comes along with the distribution of NS2
cd ns-allinone-2.31/ns-2.31/tcl/ex

After these steps, you can now run the ns validation suite with
cd ns-2.31; ./validate