I am using ubuntu 8.10.I have installed ns-2.34.It has shown the message that installation is successful.I did the validation which at last showed that all tests have passed.Before validation i changed the bash file.the changes are,i added the following lines at the end of the bash file(please note that i extracted my ns-allinone-2.34 folder at /home/ritoban)-

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH
OTCL_LIB=/home/ritoban/ns-allinone-2.34/otcl-1.13
NS2_LIB=/home/ritoban/ns-allinone-2.34/lib
X11_LIB=/usr/X11R6/lib
USR_LOCAL_LIB=/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB:$X11_LIB:$USR_LOCAL_LIB

# TCL_LIBRARY
TCL_LIB=/home/ritoban/ns-allinone-2.34/tcl8.4.18/library
USR_LIB=/usr/lib
export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB

# PATH
XGRAPH=/home/ritoban/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
NS=/home/ritoban/ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/
NAM=/home/ritoban/ns-allinone-2.34/nam-1.14/
PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM

after this i ran the command

$ source ~/.bashrc

from the terminal & then restarted my machine.Then when i entered ns-2.34 directory & tried to run ns by typing the command "ns",instead of showing "%" at the terminal it showed the following.

Usage: host [-v] [-a] [-t querytype] [options] name [server]
Listing: host [-v] [-a] [-t querytype] [options] -l zone [server]
Hostcount: host [-v] [options] -H [-D] [-E] [-G] zone
Check soa: host [-v] [options] -C zone
Addrcheck: host [-v] [options] -A host
Listing options: [-L level] [-S] [-A] [-p] [-P prefserver] [-N skipzone]
Common options: [-d] [-f|-F file] [-I chars] [-i|-n] [-q] [-Q] [-T] [-Z]
Other options: [-c class] [-e] [-m] [-o] [-r] [-R] [-s secs] [-u] [-w]
Special options: [-O srcaddr] [-j minport] [-J maxport]
Extended usage: [-x [name ...]] [-X server [name ...]]

I can't make out what is this,why is this being shown.Please help me sum1.I need it in my final year project.

Thanx in advance.

Please have a look at post # 3 here
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...8.10-753586/#3

About the ' ns ' "error" : May be try :
1) cd ns-allinone-2.34/ns-2.34/
2) ./ns
.. and please tell the result.
I can't tell, what is causing the "missing ns % issue",
I have never experienced it myself.
Googling .. ns Usage: host [-v] .. will get 9 million hits, example
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-450772.html
> > http://suneelshinde.blogspot.com/201...s2-within.html
> NS2inUBUNTUin2minutes.rar :
http://www.ziddu.com/download/839915...nutes.rar.html
.. to get ' ready to use ' Ubuntu executables ..



How did you manage to install the 'autoconf',
discussed in your recent thread ?

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About ns errors , 2 :
When tcl, tk , version 8.5.x is installed, nam
cannot be created to be usable.
EDIT :
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...31-a-801695/#3
...............About the patch 'tk-8.4-lastevent.patch'

You can see in 'Synaptic', what is installed.
Nam will compile OK, but will not function.

The usual approach is to remove all tcl / tk
before building ns2. ( sudo apt-get remove ...)
Version 8.4.19 will usually cause no errors with ns-2.34,
and can be installed (again) after the ns2 build.

So what I imagine, is that on some Linux versions, a wrong
version of tcl, tk can also disturb the build of an 'ns',
so it isn't usable.

Conclusion : No system tcl + tk should be present at build
time. ( Unless you are building a very old version of ns2
and may need a system tcl, tk version 8.3 ).
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