How to install OMNET++ on Ubuntu

OMNeT++ is a discrete event simulation environment. Its primary application area is the simulation of communication networks, but because of its generic and flexible architecture, is successfully used in other areas like the simulation of complex IT systems, queueing networks or hardware architectures as well.

Follow the simple steps given below and get your OMNET++ up:

1. Download the OMNET++ simulator from here.

2. sudo -s (become root user)
    sudo tar zxf omnetpp-4.0p1-src.tgz -C /usr/local/ ; cd /usr/local ; sudo ln -s omnetpp-4.0p1 omnetpp

3. sudo apt-get install bison byacc flex blt lmodern giftrans doxygen libxml2-dev graphviz imagemagick (or use synaptic package manager for installing these)

4. sudo apt-get install tcl8.4 tk8.4 tcl8.4-dev tk8.4-dev (Or use synaptic package manager for installing these)

5. The following environment variables may be added into ~/.bashrc for future convenience. Remember to remove the word export!)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/omnetpp/lib
export TCL_LIBRARY=/usr/share/tcltk/tcl8.4
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/omnetpp/bin

6. cd /usr/local/omnetpp; sudo ./configure;

7. sudo make

8. export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/omnetpp/bin

9. sudo make

This will complete your installation. Try running the program given in samples directory by:

10. cd /usr/local/omnetpp-3.3/samples/dyna

11. run ./dyna

Its so simple!! Have fun !!


Mobility Framework for OMNeT++

1. Download Mobility Framework (MF) from Omnetapp

2. Unzip the tar file using tar command

3. goto MF directory

4. run ./mkmk

5. Add in ~/.bashrc file
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mobility-fw directory/core/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/mobility-fw directory/contrib/lib

4. make all

5. goto networks directory->802.11

6. ./802.11

Try other examples also given with MF.

Oops !! Still getting shared library error, then follow this step->

a. Create symbolic link from /../core/lib/*.so to /usr/local/lib/*.so

and /../contrib/lin/*.so to /usr/local/lib/*.so

How to create Symbolic link ? Here we go->

ln -s /../MF Directory/core/lib/filename.so /usr/local/lib/filename.so


And I am sure this will surely solve your problem :)

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