Monday, November 14, 2011

Installing GNS3 on CentOS 6.x/RHEL 6.x/Fedora 15


  1. Login as root then do the following steps:
    yum install python python-devel xorg-x11-proto-devel libXext-devel gcc-c++ libXrender*
     2. Download and install Qt
         http://get.qt.nokia.com/qt/source/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz
         tar -xzf qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4.tar.gz
         cd qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.7.4
         ./configure -nomake examples -nomake demos -qt-gif -no-exceptions -debug -qt3support
         gmake
         gmake install
         PATH=/usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.7.4/bin:$PATH
         export PATH




     3. Download and install sip
         http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Downloads/sip4/sip-4.13.tar.gz 
         tar -xvf sip-4.13.tar.gz
         cd sip-4.13.tar
         python configure.py
         make
         make install

    4. Download and install PyQt
        http://ftp.pardus.org.tr/pub/source/2009/PyQt-x11-gpl-4.8.4.tar.gz
        tar xvf PyQt-x11-gpl-4.8.4.tar.gz
        cd PyQt-x11-gpl-4.8.4
        python configure.py -q /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.7.4/bin/qmake
        make
        make install

   5. Download GNS3
       http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/gns-3/GNS3/0.7.4/GNS3-0.7.4-src.tar.gz
       tar -xvf GNS3*.tar.gz && rm GNS3*.tar.gz
       cd GNS3-0.7.4-src
       mkdir Dynamips IOS Project Cache Temp
  
   6. Download Dynamips depending up on OS (64-bit/32-bit)
       cd dynamips
       (for 64-bit OS)
       http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gns-3/dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-amd64.bin?download 
       (for 32-bit OS)
       http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gns-3/dynamips-0.2.8-RC3-community-x86.bin?download

       chmod +x dynamips-0.2.8-RC2-amd64.bin (if we use 32-bit version, use the name of that file)

   7. Creating Quick launch with gns3 icon
       http://www.noahbeach.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/gns3.png

       Now right click on the panel and select add to panel > custom launcher > select the gns3 location and press on the icon button to locate the icon just downloaded. ok
Now if we press that icon in the panel, gns3 will run…!!!

   





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