Simple NS-2 Installation Procedure to Fedora-13

 Check for the complete LINUX installation (with all the options enabled during installation) in the system.  

 During installation of NS-2 its better to get into the ROOT login. 

 Copy the given ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz file in the root directory. 

 Extract the files in the same folder using extract option or the command in the terminal as

                       root>tar zxvf  ns-allinone-2.34.tar.gz

       The files will be extracted in the newly created folder as ns-allinone-2.34.

       Now go to the terminal and get into the folder ns-allinone-2.34 and do the following

Root> cd ns-allinone-2.34

Root/ns-allinone-2.34 >./install 

 This command will run for 10-15 minutes. If it is a successful installation you will be getting IMPORTANT NOTICE notes (detailing about the paths to set)

  For path setting, create new ns2.34.sh file, then paste the lines given below into ns2.34.sh file &save it.

 PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/root/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/root/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/unix:/root/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/root/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13:/root/ns-allinone-2.34/lib

export TCL_LIBRARY=/root/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library

 Copy the ns-2.34.sh file given into the following folder

                             Computer/file system/etc/profile.d 

    Now close all the terminal and open  a new terminal and get into the folder root/ns-allinone-2.34 and give ns command and you will be getting each time as below after pressing ENTER key.which indicates that the installation is complete .

   Root/ns-allinone-2.34>ns

  %

%exit

 Now you can run the programs in a new terminal.

i hope it may help full for others working in this tool

Regards,

C.Manikandan