The ns2 version taken here is 2.

31, if you downloaded any other version, please modify your version during installation 1)Uncompress the ns2 tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.31.tar.gz or gzip -d ns-allinone-2.31.tar.gz tar xvf ns-allinone-2.31.tar 2) cd /opt/ns-allinone-2.31 (since /opt is the folder which is unused, so i have selected that folder to install, however you can install that in any folder) 3) ./install (execute the command) 4) If the installation fails in the middle, then try to install the linux packages that are necessary to run NS2. (In any linux (ubuntu or fedora or redhat or suse), install the TCL/TK, Perl packages during the installation of linux) 5) Once the installation succeeded, then the path information will be provided by the NS2 6) Set the path in the /root/.bash_profile (vi /root/.bash_profile) or If you are a user home//.bash_profile (for example, if your the username is tsp, then execute this command vi /home/tsp/.bash_profile) 7) set the PATH and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH according to the point number 11. logout and login. 9) go to the terminal and try ns or nam 10) for running the examples comes along with the distribution of NS2 cd /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/ns-2.31/tcl/ex 11. This is how you will see once the ns2 installation is success, from this information, you can put the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.. ////////////////This is the successful installation of the NS2 package Ns-allinone package has been installed successfully. Here are the installation places: tcl8.4.14: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/{bin,include,lib} tk8.4.14: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/{bin,include,lib}

otcl: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/otcl-1.13 tclcl: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/tclcl-1.19 ns: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/ns-2.31/ns nam: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/nam-1.13/nam xgraph: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/xgraph-12.1 gt-itm: /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/itm, edriver, sgb2alt, sgb2ns, sgb2comns, sgb2hierns Please put /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/bin:/opt/ns-allinone-2.31/tcl8.4.14/unix:/opt/ns-allinone2.31/tk8.4.14/unix into your PATH environment; so that youll be able to run itm/tclsh/wish/xgraph. IMPORTANT NOTICES: (1) You MUST put /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/otcl-1.13, /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/lib, into your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable. If it complains about X libraries, add path to your X libraries into LD_LIBRARY_PATH. If you are using csh, you can set it like: setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH If you are using sh, you can set it like: export LD_LIBRARY_PATH= (2) You MUST put /opt/ns-allinone-2.31/tcl8.4.14/library into your TCL_LIBRARY environmental variable. Otherwise ns/nam will complain during startup. After these steps, you can now run the ns validation suite with cd ns-2.31; ./validate For trouble shooting, please first read ns problems page http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html. Also search the ns mailing list archive for related posts.