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Install NS3 on Ubuntu 16.04

  1. Install required compilers and additional packages
sudo apt-get install gcc g++ python3 python3-dev
sudo apt-get install mercurial python3-setuptools git
  1. qt4 development tools are needed for Netanim animator
sudo apt-get install qt4-dev-tools libqt4-dev
  1. Compilation packages
sudo apt-get install cmake libc6-dev libc6-dev-i386 g++-multilib
  1. Debugging tools, valgrind for memory debugging
sudo apt-get install gdb valgrind
  1. GNU Scientific Library (GSL) support for more accurate WiFi error models
sudo apt-get install gsl-bin libgsl2 libgsl-dev
  1. For flex lexical analyzer and bison parser generator
sudo apt-get install flex bison libfl-dev
  1. To read pcap packet traces
sudo apt-get install tcpdump
  1. Database support for statistics framework
sudo apt-get install sqlite sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev
  1. For Xml library support
sudo apt-get install libxml2 libxml2-dev
  1. For creating graphical user interface
sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-dev
  1. For virtual machines and ns-3
sudo apt-get install vtun lxc
  1. For source code modification
sudo apt-get install uncrustify
  1. For editting image and texlive for documentation
sudo apt-get install doxygen graphviz imagemagick
sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra texlive-font-utils
sudo apt-get install python-sphinx dia
  1. For pyviz visualizer
sudo apt-get install python-pygraphviz python-kiwi python-pygoocanvas libgoocanvas-dev ipython
  1. For openflow module
sudo apt-get install libboost-signals-dev libboost-filesystem-dev
  1. For MPI-based distribution emulation
sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev
  1. Create a directory NS3 under home directory for downloading ns3 files ··· cd ~ mkdir NS3 cd NS3 hg clone http://code.nsnam.org/ns-3-allinone ··· As the hg (Mercurial) command executes, you should see something like the following displays
destination directory: ns-3-allinone
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding maniftest
adding file changes
added 26 changesets with 40 changes to 7 files
7 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
  1. After the clone command completes, you find directory ns-3-allione under your /home/NS3 directory. Run the python file to download and build the ns-3 distribution
cd ns-3-allinone
./download.py -n ns-3-dev

After download process completes, you can find several new directories under /home/NS3/ns-3-allinone as below

build.py* constant.pyc download.py* nsc/ README util.pyc
constants.py dist.py* ns-3-dev/ pybindgen/ util.py
  1. Now complile and build the packages. Run build python file
./build.py

20 Configuration with Waf

cd ns-3-dev
CXXFLAGS="-03" ./waf configure
./waf -d optimized configure
./waf -d debug configure
./waf
./waf --enable-examples configure
./waf --enable-tests configure
  1. Now verifyu installation
./test.py

You wil get output as below

PASS: TestSuite histoggram
PASS: TestSuite ns3-wifi-interference
PASS: TestSuite ns3-tcp-cwnd
PASS: TestSuite ns3-tcp-interoperability
PASS: TestSuite sample

Run hello simulator

./waf --run hello-simulator