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.

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$ sudo apt update

Download ns3.43 from the following link

https://www.nsnam.org/releases/ns-allinone-3.43.tar.bz2 

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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