ns2 on ubuntu

[somya99]

can NS2 work on ubuntu? i have to start my project on NS2 and i have ubuntu installed on my system. will it work?

[D-cat]

If you're talking about Network Simulator, then not only should it build fine on any Linux distro, it's actually designed for Posix systems, so running it on Windows requires cigwin binaries (which simulates a *nix environment in Windows).

You may need to install the build packages before it'll compile.

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Then follow the instructions on the NS2 page.
There's a host of other prerequisite programs too (on the install page), but I think most of them are already installed on a typical graphical desktop. While there are links to sources on their page, you're probably better off searching and installing whatever you can through Synaptic first, since that avoids other potential problems.