Installing the Prerequisite Packages
$ sudo apt-get update
To install the required packages, type in the terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install build-essential gcc g++ bison flex perl tcl-dev tk-dev libxml2-dev zlib1g-dev default-jre doxygen graphviz libwebkitgtk-1.0-0
To use Qtenv with 3D visualization support, install the development packages for Qt4, OpenSceneGraph (3.2) and the osgEarth (2.5 or later) packages:
$ sudo apt-get install qt4-qmake libqt4-dev libqt4-opengl-dev openscenegraph libopenscenegraph-dev openscenegraph-plugin-osgearth osgearth osgearth-data libosgearth-dev
To enable the optional parallel simulation support you will need to install the MPI packages:
$ sudo apt-get install openmpi-bin libopenmpi-dev
Download OMNeT++: https://omnetpp.org/download/old/
Unpacking: $ tar xvfz omnetpp-5.0-src.tgz
Environment Variables: $ cd omnetpp-5.0
Edit bashrc shell: $ nano ./bashrc add:
export PATH=$PATH:/home/userdirectory/omnetpp-5.0/bin
export OMNET_DIR=:/home/userdirectory/omnetpp-5.0
Then exit and run: $ source ~/.bashrc
Edit configure.user file: $ nano configure.user set value WITH_TKENV=no and WITH_QTENV=no
Type terminal: $ ./configure
When ./configure has finished, compile OMNeT++. Type in the terminal: $ make