Installing ns-2.31 on Ubuntu 10.10 for novice, from a novice

Here are the errors I encountered while installing ns-2.31 on Ubuntu 10.10 

1. Make sure the packages libxt-dev, libx11-dev and libxmu-dev are installed. Synaptic Package Manager is the best place to start - just mark these packages and say apply.

2.

/home/sri/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/otcl-1.13/otcl.c:495: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail_local'

otcl.o: In function `Otcl_Init':

/home/sri/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/otcl-1.13/otcl.c:2284: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail_local'

ld: libotcl.so: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' isn't defined

ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output

make: *** [libotcl.so] Error 1

otcl-1.13 make failed! Exiting ...

See http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-problems.html for problems

sri@sri-Studio-1458:~/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31$ ^C

sri@sri-Studio-1458:~/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31$ 

 do this :

edit the configure.in file ( in folder otcl-1.13) at 

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         SHLIB_CFLAGS="-fpic"
         SHLIB_LD="gcc -shared"
         SHLIB_SUFFIX=".so"
         DL_LIBS="-ldl"
         SHLD_FLAGS=""

 and just save it .

do not forget to 

...otcl-1.13$ autoconf -f

3.

While following the instructions at http://nsnam.isi.edu/nsnam/index.php/Installing_ns2.31_on_Ubuntu7.04 

make sure the command

XGRAPH=/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/bin:/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18

/unix:/your/path/ns-allinone-2.34/tk8.4.18/unix

is on a single line. Otherwise it throws an error saying "path not found" or something like that, I do not remember...

Finally, after your ns2.31 is successfully installed you get a a message  

Please put /home/sri/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/bin:/home/sri/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/tcl8.4.14/unix:/home/sri/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/tk8.4.14/unix

into your PATH environment; so that you'll be able to run itm/tclsh/wish/xgraph.

IMPORTANT NOTICES:

(1) You MUST put /home/sri/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/otcl-1.13, /home/sri/NS_2/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 (paths)

If you are using sh, you can set it like:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=paths

(2) You MUST put /home/sri/NS_2/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

sri@sri-Studio-1458:~/NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31$ cd NS_2/ns-allinone-2.31/ns-2.31/

Before doing anything, just check the environment variables i.e., echo $variable_name

Most probably the environment variables would have been updated automatically. You wouldn't need to set up separately. 

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