[ns] Problem with running NS2 after installation

[Gang Zhou]

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Did you execute "export PATH" in bashrc file after changing PATH?


Best Regards

Gang

2010/9/7 Mobin Yazarlou <yazarlou.m at gmail.com>

> Hi Gang,
>  Thanks for your answer.I found that those warnings were because of the
> following two lines in .bashrc file:
>
> unset TMP
> unset TEMP
>
>  Removing these two directions eliminates warnings.
>
>  After removing all comments and the mentioned directions from .bashrc, I
> changed the environment variables this way (thanks T. Issaraiyakul for his
> helpful Slides on NS installation):
>
> NSHOME=~/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6
> OTCL_LIB=${NSHOME}/otcl-1.14
> NS2_LIB=${NSHOME}/lib
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$OTCL_LIB:$NS2_LIB
> export TCL_LIBRARY=${NSHOME}/tcl8.5.8/library
> PATH=$PATH:${NSHOME}/ns-2.35:${NSHOME}/nam-1.15
>
>  And now the response to 'ns' command in Cygwin prompt is as follows:
>
> Mobin at mobin ~
> $ ns
> bash: ns: command not found
>
>  I don't know why this happens but I'm pretty sure that 'ns.exe' exists in
> 'ns-2.35' folder, which is declared in PATH.
>
>  Is there any suggestion to overcome this problem?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Mobin
>
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Gang Zhou <whizhou at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It seems your LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't set well.
>>
>>
>> the warning message : " ': not a valid identifier
>> ': not a valid identifier
>> "
>> means some lines in your .bashrc file can't be recognized by your shell.
>>
>> Maybe you should use dos2unix or other editor to convert your .bashrc file
>> to unix format.
>>
>>  then relogin ,see if  the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable has been set right .
>>
>>
>> 2010/9/6 Mobin Yazarlou <yazarlou.m at gmail.com>
>>
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>  I've installed "ns-allinone-2.35-RC6" on the latest version of Cygwin
>>> (1.7)
>>> in WinXP twice but I still get the following error
>>> when I try to run NS2 by typing "ns" in cygwin prompt.
>>>
>>> Mobin at mobin ~
>>> $ ns
>>> /home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/ns-2.35/ns.exe: error while loading
>>> shared
>>> libr
>>> aries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>>
>>>
>>>  The three lines that i've added to .bashrc are these:
>>>
>>> export
>>>
>>> LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/otcl-1.14:/home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/lib
>>> export TCL_LIBRARY=/home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/tcl8.5.8/library
>>>
>>> PATH=/home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/bin:/home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/tcl8.5.8/unix:/home/Mobin/ns-allinone-2.35-RC6/tk8.5.8/unix
>>>
>>>  And another important thing to mention is the following warnings which
>>> appear right after opening Cygwin prompt.
>>>
>>>  ': not a valid identifier
>>>  ': not a valid identifier
>>>
>>>  Mobin at mobin ~
>>>  $
>>>
>>>  Could anyone help me to fix this problem?
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>  Mobin
>>>
>>
>>
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