Installing NS2 in ubuntu 9.10

I have seen that there isn't any tutorial where it says the way to install the latest version of Network Simulator [NS2.34] in ubuntu 9.10.



step1: Untar the downloaded content.

You can download the latest version of Network Simulator software at
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-build.html

Note: Unless you are experienced with the NS2 already, I would recommend you to download the 'allinone' NS2 package.

 
step2: Ensure that you have all the libraries installed.

$sudo apt-get install autoconf automake libxmu-dev
 

step3:

$sudo apt-get install build-essential

step4: navigate to the ns2 directory

$cd ns-allinone-2.34/
 

step5: Finally install

./install

Frequent errors that you might encounter:

make: *** [libotcl.so] Error 127 otcl-1.13 make failed!

Follow the below steps:


$gedit otcl-1.13/Makefile.in
 
#edit line 7
From :
CC=       @CC@

to :
CC=       gcc-4.3

and/or

$CC=gcc-4.3 CXX=g++-4.3 ./install

step6: validate your install

./validate



Step7: There you go! NS2 is ready to be worked on