This post tells you how to install the ns3 version in Linux Mint 17 (64bit)- Long Term Support till 2019. Preliminaries The following development libraries are to be installed before trying ns3 $prompt] sudo apt-get update $prompt] sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf automake libxmu-dev $prompt] sudo apt-get install ia32-libs (the above software ia32-libs is needed only when you want to run the 32 bit applications inside a 64bit OS) Now download the ns3 software from the website http://www.nsnam.org I downloaded the version 3.20 ( ns-allinone-3.20.tar.bz2 ). Please do understand that ns2 is different from ns3 and they are not having any link between them (however, some network models were used in ns3 were adopted from ns2). Also ns3 will run using the main() of C++ and also it has python bindings. Here is the installation steps of ns3 1. copy the ns-allinone-3.20.tar.bz2 in the home directory(Ex: /home/pradeepkumar) 2. Set the following path information (t
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