[ndnSIM] Cannot launch visualizer in scenario-template project

[Julian Wulfheide]

Alright. Thank you for your answer!

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Alex Afanasyev
<alexander.afanasyev at ucla.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 28, 2014, at 12:19 PM, Julian Wulfheide <ju.wulfheide at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I installed ns-3 and ndnSim as described here:
>> http://ndnsim.net/getting-started.html#simulating-using-ndnsim
>>
>> I then copied the simple example
>> (http://ndnsim.net/examples.html#simple-scenario) into the template
>> project (scenarios/) and tried running it with
>> ./waf --run=ndn-simple --vis
>> The visualizer does not show up.
>
> Visualizer is always a fragile part of NS-3.  If it doesn't show up, then something wrong with NS-3, installed python modules, or something else.  It is known to work on Ubuntu 12.04 with the instruction on the website, but I cannot say why it is not working.  May be something with installation of the template scenario... I'm not sure.
>
> Visualizer is nice, but it is not the primary function of NS-3.  You still can simulate everything :)
>
>
>> When I switch to the main ns-3 directory and create a ndn-simple.cc
>> and use the same command to start the simulation, the visualizer does
>> show up.
>>
>> What can I do to launch the visualizer in the scenario template?
>>
>> Thanks!
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