Installation of ns 2.35 simulator in ubuntu Linux

For installing ns 2.35 in ubuntu Linux you have download ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz (56.7MB) and following steps.

1. Get an active internet connection and connect your computer with internet.

2. Update your computer by using command sudo apt-get update

3. Run command sudo apt-get install build essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev 

4. If in step-3 or step-2 command give some error then you have to connect your terminal to internet.For this you can visit url http://askubuntu.com/questions/298177/a-failed-to-fetch-error-occurs-when-apt-get-update-is-run-how-do-i-fix-this

5. The downloaded file is a tar file. You need to untar it. So, run command

 tar zxvf ns-allinone-2.35.tar.gz.

6. Run four given commands 

        cd ns-allinone-2.35

        ./install

        cd

        sudo apt-get install ns2

7. If command of step-6 does not execute successfully then you have to change some file which is indicated at terminal but for easy you can visit a video from youtube search for "Installation of NS2.35 (Network Simulator 2) in Linux Mint 14 (64 bit)"

8.  Now you need to install NAM editor run command sudo apt-get install nam

Note- This is tested on linux-mint-16 if have another version of linux it may vary some situations.Before start installation You have to sure that gcc compiler is working.