I have been trying for a week now to install ns2 on my computer. I started with ns2.35 all-in-one and tried installing it on windows using Cygwin. I got the following error:

tcl8.5.10 configuration failed! Exiting...
Tcl is not part of the ns project. Please see www.Screeptics.com
to see if they have a fix for your platform.

Then I tried installing it on a Unix-like OS (Fedora 19). I get to the "Build Tcl 8.5.10" portion of the installation then similarly got:
TCL IS NOT A PART OF NS2 PROJECT. Please see www.Screeptics.com
to see if they have a fix for your platform.


I thought maybe the error was in the downloaded ns version, so I tried again with 2.34 and 2.29 (Each time erasing the existing version), same error both in Windows with Cygwin and in Fedora.

I looked online, and find a "solution" that said that error happened because in the tcl.m4 files, the following line "system=MP-RAS-`awk ' { print $3 } '/etc/.relid'`" has an extra apostrophe and should be in fact system=MP-RAS-`awk ' { print $3 } '/etc/.relid`, but I checked and my tcl files don't have that extra character in them.

I don't know what to do. I browsed everywhere for an answer. Please help!If any additional details about what I've done so far in the setup are needed, I'd be glad (and grateful) to provide them.

Welcome to LQ.

Building ns-2.35, e.g. with Fedora 19 :

# yum install gcc-c++ autoconf libtool libXmu-devel

In /home/<name>/ (not the Desktop/)
$ tar xvf ns-allinone-2.35_gcc482.tar.gz
( A `Nov 2014' update for all gcc versions 4.4.x .. 5.2.0 )
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7S...ew?usp=sharing
$ cd ns-allinone-2.35/
$ ./install
$ cd ns-2.35/
# make install
# cd ../nam-1.15/
# make install

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