please help !!
encountered an error while installing ns2.29 :
no rule to make target 'VERSION' , needed by gen/version.c.
make failed



i'm stuck with this problem for a few days now.
i urgently need ns2 to be installed

Welcome to Linux Questions.

Suggest : Please use 'ns-allinone-2.33'
which is the latest version :
http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...8643/&abmode=1

This will usually compile on most newer Linux.

Please tell which Linux you are using, (Ubuntu ?,
Fedora ? ... version ??) if you have further questions.

Other info
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...?highlight=ns2
( Just "Search" 'ns2' here at LQ. )

Good Luck.

thanks for your reply

i'm using openSUSE. and i ve overcome the problem.

Hi there,
I want to install TraNS simulator, my OS is Linux Fedora 7 and i'm using
ns-2.32, i follow the instruction from read me file at website
trans.epfl.ch, when running recompile in ns-2.32 folder using command ./configure; make clean; make, i got this report
:
make: *** No rule to make target `vanet/vanetrw.o', needed by `ns'. Stop.


can somebody help me to solve this. thak you for your help.

Regards,

don pollo

can u plz tell us , how did u over come this problem ..

iam using ubuntu 8.04

and i can't install ns.2 !!!

however traNS is working .. but it needs the NS exe file to be correct ..

Can ANyone Help ?!!?!?

@ sheshta : Welcome to LQ.

To compile e.g. ns-2.33 and nam-1.13 on Ubuntu 8.04
you will need this ( with 'sudo apt-get install <package>') :

libx11-dev, libxmu-dev, libxmu-headers, libxt-dev,
tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev .

And 'otcl-1.13', 'tclcl-1.19' can be installed to
/usr/local/.

What is "traNS" ? Please provide a link.
And which version of ns2 are you trying to build ? ?
.....

TraNS is a Traffic and Network Simulator , open-source java program, that iam doin a study on , but can't really get to make it work in its full version

http://trans.epfl.ch/

thats the website for them ...

however .. thanks alot .. i hope it will work

am tryin to build ns2.allinone.2.29

Hi, I am installing ns-allinone-2.33 on Fedora 10 and I also encounter the same problem.

Can anyone help me with it?

Links 'transv1.2' and 'translite'
http://wiki.epfl.ch/trans/documents/transv1.2.zip
http://wiki.epfl.ch/trans/documents/translite.zip
Links for "Requirements", TraNS :
SUMO http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/s...3.zip?download
PROJ.4 http://trac.osgeo.org/proj/ > >
http://download.osgeo.org/proj/proj-4.6.1.tar.gz
GDAL http://www.gdal.org/
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadingGdalBinaries
GDAL source :
http://trac.osgeo.org/gdal/wiki/DownloadSource
........

@ terbulance129 : which problem ? More than one issue
is on debate in this thread.
.....
Fedora 10 :
'rpm -qa --last > last-050509.txt' tells me, that the day I
compiled ns-allinone-2.33 these packages were installed :
libX11-devel-1.1.5-3.fc10
( libX11-1.1.5-3.fc10 )
libXmu-devel-1.0.4-1.fc9
xorg-x11-util-macros-1.1.6-2.fc10
.....
'ns-allinone-2.33' and 'ns-2.33' will compile on a clean install
of Fedora 10 with no errors. ( Usually.)

You will see that some of the 8 applications in ns-allinone
have VERSION files. If one is missing, or asked for in
another location, just create a VERSION text file.
.....

@ knudfl

Thanks Alot for the effort, however that TraNS is a VERRY complicated program , which i was not able to make it work,

if u heard about anyone who did , please let me know . its about my bachelor thesis.

wish me luck ..

thanks again

1)
"Documentation" TraNS : TraNSv1.2/bin/readme.txt
http://trans.epfl.ch/ > > Read all 'Publications'
.....

Example install Ubuntu 8.04.1 : ... 2) to 4) ....
2)
sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk libxerces28-dev libgdal1-dev proj \
tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev libfox-1.4-dev libxext-dev libpcap0.8-dev

3)
cd /usr/lib/tcl8.4/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4/init.tcl
sudo ln -s /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4/history.tcl
sudo ln -s /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4/word.tcl
sudo ln -s /usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4/http1.0/

cd /usr/lib/tk8.4/
sudo ln -s /usr/share/tcltk/tk8.4/* .
where the dot ( . ) means the current directory.

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libgdal1.4.0.so.1.11.4 libgdal.so

4)
Install from source to /usr/local/ , in this order :
otcl-1.13, tclcl-1.19, ns-2.33, nam-1.13, sumo-0.10.3
( Sumo has a GUI : command = 'sumo-guisim' )

5)
cd TraNSv1.2/bin/
java -jar TraNSv1.2.jar
5a)
or : cd TraNSLite/bin/
java -jar TraNSLite.jar
.....

can u tell me how to install to such path /usr/local ??

shud i type $PATH=/usr/local ??

or do i extract the file and put it there ?

Very easy in fact : extract all the above applications to
/home/"username"/tmp or your preferred location in /home/"user...

1) cd otcl-1.13/
./configure
make
sudo make install

Then the first one to be installed will be in /usr/local/
..... just have a look in your file manager to see the result.
( /usr/local/lib/libotcl.a .. /usr/local/bin/... )

2) tclcl-1.19 , 3) ns-2.33 , 4) nam-1.13 , 5) sumo-0.10.3 ,
..... same procedure to have it all in /usr/local/ .
.....

alright .. thanks alot .. i did that ... now i have an error in ns-2 installation .
the ./configure goes well

make ; make install give this error . i think its in 'make install'

ERROR:
for d in /usr/local/man/man1; do \
if [ ! -d $d ]; then \
mkdir -p $d ;\
fi;\
done
/usr/bin/install -c -m 755 ns /usr/local/bin
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat 'ns': No such file or directory



i created a file 'ns' in that directory didn't work !!

any idea's ???

i tried that with ns-2.33 ns-2.29 and ns-2.31

thanks

.... Unknown problem ...

Ns is mainly one file, so please try

cd ns-2.33
sudo cp -a ns /usr/local/bin/

( But if it doesn't work, you didn't finish make correctly,
no executable 'ns' ? Should be 4.6 MB .)
.....