[Mini-NDN] Mini-NDN dependency issue on Ubuntu 18.04

[Junxiao Shi]

Dear folks

During the recent NDN hackathon, I have made improvements to the Mini-NDN
installation script, fixing all problems listed below.
If you have a chance, please help test and review the updated script:
https://gerrit.named-data.net/c/mini-ndn/+/6517

You may download the code with these steps:

   1. Clone Mini-NDN repository as usual.
   2. Go to the above link, click the "DOWNLOAD" button on the top-right
   corner of the file list, and copy the command under "reset to".
   3. Run the copied command in the Mini-NDN repository.


Note that the script requires Ubuntu 20.04 instead of 18.04.
After your reviews, I hope the change can be merged quickly so that future
installations would be easier.

Yours, Junxiao

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 7:01 PM Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> Dear folks
>
> I'm trying to setup Mini-NDN (revision
> 578f2ec695e6918f86f2837068c1f66d2ccf26c3) on Ubuntu 18.04 following the
> guide in docs/install.rst , and I noticed two dependency issues.
> I'm using a Utah Emulab d710 PC with system image urn:publicid:IDN+
> emulab.net+image+emulab-ops:UBUNTU18-64-STD.
>
> ImportError: No module named mn_wifi.cli
> The command given for "install without CCL" is: ./install.sh -mni
> I added -q flag for automated installation, which completed without
> errors.
> However, Mini-NDN installed with this command is unusable:
> sjx at n:~/mini-ndn$ sudo python examples/mnndn.py
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "examples/mnndn.py", line 27, in <module>
>     from minindn.util import MiniNDNCLI
>   File "/users/sjx/mini-ndn/minindn/util.py", line 30, in <module>
>     from mn_wifi.cli import CLI as CLI_wifi
> ImportError: No module named mn_wifi.cli
>
> It seems that Mininet-WiFi is a required dependency of Mini-NDN,
> intentionally or not.
> If it should have been an optional dependency, the runtime scripts should
> have necessary checks.
> If it should have been a required dependency, the documentation and script
> should be revised.
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnl-route-3
> I also tried the quiet installation command: ./install.sh -qa
> The installation completes, and basic verification passes.
> However, there's an error in the console output:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lnl-route-3
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> Makefile:1882: recipe for target 'wpa_supplicant' failed
> make: *** [wpa_supplicant] Error 1
>
> If I install the libnl-route-3-dev package before installing Mini-NDN,
> the installation would succeed without the above error.
> Please add it to the script.
>
> cp: cannot stat 'topologies/minindn.testbed.conf': No such file or
> directory
> Another error is:
> cp: cannot stat 'topologies/minindn.testbed.conf': No such file or
> directory
> cp: cannot stat 'topologies/current-testbed.conf': No such file or
> directory
> These files no longer exist but are referenced in install.sh.
>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
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