The “Prerequisites” section of this wiki page explains which packages are One such page is the “Installation” page, with install instructions The project provides a wiki that includes pages with many useful hintsĪnd tips. Optional features of ns-3, but for those wishing a full installation, Need not concern themselves if their configuration reports some missing Installation of Git source code control system. Support for a few common (often installed by default) components: aĬ++ compiler, an installation of Python, a source code editor (such as vim,Įmacs, or Eclipse) and, if using the development repositories, an On third-party libraries, but most of ns-3 can be built and used with

The entire set of available ns-3 libraries has a number of dependencies We will therefore focus on a source installation in this tutorial.įor most uses of ns-3, root permissions are not needed, and the use ofĪ non-privileged user account is recommended. Themselves, so having the source code available is more convenient. Most users end up editing and having to rebuild the ns-3 libraries

Like most other libraries using a package management tool? Although thereĮxist some binary packages for various Linux distributions (e.g. Since the tools involved are slightly different.Įxperienced Linux users may wonder at this point why ns-3 is not provided

The third is to use an additionalīuild tool to download more extensions for ns-3. The second is to fetch and build developmentĬopies of a basic ns-3 installation. The first is to download and build an official releaseįrom the main web site. In the following, we’ll look at three ways of downloading and building Operating systems, please contact the ns-developers mailing list. To undertake the job of making pre-built libraries and packages for ns-3 could in principle beĭistributed as pre-built libraries for selected systems, and in theįuture it may be distributed that way, but at present, many usersĪctually do their work by editing ns-3 itself, so having the sourceĬode around to rebuild the libraries is useful. Needs to have a software development environment to build the librariesįirst, then build the user program. Ns-3 is distributed as source code, meaning that the target system User programs are written in either the C++ or Python User programs can be written that links with (or imports from) these Ns-3 is built as a system of software libraries that work together.

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