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NS3 Installation in Windows 11 | WSL

Installing ns3 in Windows 11 with WSL 

(Windows Subsystem for Linux)

Step 1: To Install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) 

Here are the steps. To see the video, please watch it here (Dont forget to subscribe to my channel for more such videos)


c:/ wsl This will run some installation and enable some features 2. Use the following command to list the online available distros. c:/ wsl --list --online 3. Select the distro you want, I Selected Ubuntu-24.04 and I used the following command
C:/ wsl --install Ubuntu-24.04 let us restart the system. After the restart, 4. Open the command prompt and run wsl as given below
C:/ wsl --install Ubuntu-24.04 This command will ask you to create a username and password. (Remember these details.) and that it's... Your Ubuntu terminal is UP.... !!!! #wsl #windows11 #ubuntu
Check these commands in the terminal $ cat /etc/*-release $ sudo apt update Try using Ubuntu within Windows. You can use a GUI editor also (gedit is a popular editor similar to Notepad) $ sudo apt install gedit and to open a file using gedit $ gedit filename.c if gedit takes more time, you can use either $ nano file.c or $ vim file.c So, using Ubuntu within Windows 11 is quite an easy process....

Step 2: To Install ns3 in Windows 11 (WSL - Ubuntu)

Open the command prompt and type 
C:/ wsl 

You will get the Linux terminal and you can do the following commands
To install WSL, follow the video link above the top right corner.

Complete instructions, watch here (Don't forget to subscribe to my channel)


$ sudo apt update


Download ns3.43 from the following link

Install all the prerequisites as given below..
$ sudo apt install g++ python3 cmake ninja-build git gir1.2-goocanvas-2.0 python3-gi python3-gi-cairo python3-pygraphviz gir1.2-gtk-3.0 ipython3 tcpdump wireshark sqlite3 libsqlite3-dev qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools openmpi-bin openmpi-common openmpi-doc libopenmpi-dev doxygen graphviz imagemagick python3-sphinx dia imagemagick texlive dvipng latexmk texlive-extra-utils texlive-latex-extra texlive-font-utils libeigen3-dev gsl-bin libgsl-dev libgslcblas0 libxml2 libxml2-dev libgtk-3-dev lxc-utils lxc-templates vtun uml-utilities ebtables bridge-utils libxml2 libxml2-dev libboost-all-dev ccache

Since Windows 11 uses terminal mode, the ns3 software to be extracted through the command line, use the following lines

$ tar jxvf ns-allinone-3.43.tar.bz2

$ cd ns-allinone-3.43/

$ ./build.py --enable-examples --enable-tests

The above command takes some time to install. 

So ns3 is installed successfully...
After the installation, check whether its installed or not using the following commands 

$ ./ns3 run hello-simulator 

$ ./ns3 run first 

$ ./ns3 run second

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