Hi.

I tried to install ns2.35.

First i followed first the steps in http://www.techerina.com/2015/02/ins...-mint-171.html. After some tries i managed to install ns2. It would only work in the current terminal. So i followed the https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/...-ubuntu-14.04/, now ns2 works and shows sometimes warning: using backward compatibility mode
. My problem if i try to execute nam i get Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: and then This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.

In the bashrc i wrote:

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH
OTCL_LIB=/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/otcl-1.14
NS2_LIB=/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/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:$USR_LOCAL_LIB
# TCL_LIBRARY
TCL_LIB=/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/library
USR_LIB=/usr/lib
export TCL_LIBRARY=$TCL_LIB:$USR_LIB
# PATH
XGRAPH=/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/bin:/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/tcl8.5.10/unix:/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/tk8.5.10/unix
#the above two lines beginning from xgraph and ending with unix should come on the same line
NS=/home/vaggelis/Documents/ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/
NAM=/home/vaggelis/Documents/ ΜΕΤΑΠΤΥΧΙΑΚΟ_ΠΑΠΕΙ/ΒΕΞΑΜΗΝΟ/ΜΕΛΛΟΝΤΙΚΟ_ΔΙΑΔΙΚΤΥΟ_ΚΑΙ_ΝΕΦΟΥΠΟΛΟΓΙΣΤΙΚΗ_ΤΣΑΓΚΑΡΗΣ/ns-allinone-2.35/nam-1.15/
PATH=$PATH:$XGRAPH:$NS:$NAM

So what can i do to make nam work, or to remove .profile, bashrc, and ns2 and reinstall?

Welcome to LQ.

First : Please use the updated ns-allinone-2.35_gcc482.tar.gz
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S...ew?usp=sharing
→ → For gcc versions 4.6 - 5.3 .

Easy : tar xvf ns-allinone-2.35_gcc482.tar.gz
cd ns-allinone-2.35/
./install

"Tutorials" like http://www.techerina.com/2015/02/ins...-mint-171.html
and https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/...-ubuntu-14.04/
... can often not be used. Most of them are only tested with one OS / one update level.
And never maintained. May fail a month after they were published.

About .bashrc : Do not add anything. Not required.
This will do : cd ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/ && sudo make install
* I.e. 'make install' will copy 'ns' to /usr/local/bin/, i.e. i.e. a system PATH.
The same for nam : cd nam-1.15/ && sudo make install

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Thank you knudfl for your immediate reply.

If i understood your suggestion properly i must do:

1)download ns2.tar
2)unzip
3)cd ns-allinone-2.35/ns-2.35/ && sudo make install

Must i before step 1 delete the contents/file of .bashrc and .profile or this is unnecessary?

Re #3.

1) Download ns-allinone-2.35_gcc482.tar.gz
2) Not a zip file, is a tar file : tar xvf ns-allinone-2.35_gcc482.tar.gz
3) .... How to build ns-2.35 .........
cd ns-allinone-2.35/
./install (that's the build command)

When the build sequence has finished :
cd ns-2.35/
sudo make install ( 'make install' will copy 'ns' to /usr/local/bin/ )
cp ns ns235-orig (this is your backup, and the copy to use for default simulations)
sudo cp ns235-orig /usr/local/bin/
cd ../nam-1.15/
sudo make install

... Now you are ready to run simulations : ns235-orig example1a.tcl
http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial.../example1a.tcl
← http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/tutorial/nsindex.html


I wouldn't worry about the .bashrc ( Probably ignored by ns2.) And a bashrc is replaceable.
* The executable 'ns' or 'ns-any-name' is hard coded to know the location of it's libraries:
ns-allinone-2.35/{ bin/tclsh8*, lib/*tcl8* }.


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It finally works!
Thank you very much for your help.