Hi guys,
While installing ns 2.33 on ubuntu 8.04,everything gets installed successfully except nam 1.13 and I get the message - Please compile your nam separately.

Please give a solution for this problem. It's urgent !!!
Any help will be appreciated .
Thanks

I am assuming that you have downloaded ns-allnone-2.33.tar.gz and unzipped it and executed "./install" from the ns-allinone-2.33 directory. If you have done something different, then you will have to tell us exactly what you did.
For best chances of meaningful help with fewest iterations, I'm thinking you should give as much information as you can. For example during the install procedure if "make nam" failed, there would have been a message to that effect. Of course that would have scrolled off of the screen some 20,000 or so lines into the procedure, and you wouldn't have seen it.

So, if you have any further problems, you can try something like:

This redirects all output from the install script to a file that you can inspect later. To see the progress of the install script, then after starting "./install" you can open another terminal window and navigate to the ns-allinone-2.33 directory and enter

(When it is finished, hit Ctrl-C in the window showing the tail.)


Now back to what I think might have happened:

Under my assumption about what you have tried to do, that message about compiling nam separately means that the "make nam" failed during the ns-allinone-2.33 install script.

In my experience, the most likely reason that "make nam" would fail is that you don't have all of the X11 development packages on your system.

From Ubuntu Installation Guide

Make sure you have the following packages installed:

libxt-dev libx11-dev libxmu-dev

Use the synaptic package manager to install them and try the ns-allinone-2.33 install script again.

Regards,

Dave

Footnote: The link that I gave you says it is for Ubuntu 8.10, but, in fact, it worked for me on Ubuntu 8.04.

First of all, thanks Dave . Yes,I am installing ns-allinone-2.33 and I think I saw something like - "Make Nam failed !!" and some msg regarding its solution.
Well,thanks for the advice. I'll try to install the x11 packages you told and reply back.

....I installed libmxu-dev and it's working now !!! thanks a lot !!