You are not trying through a remote login shell, are you? I mean using putty or telnet?
If you are you'll need a X server at your machine and do the following before starting nam. export DISPLAY=<you-ip>:0.0 Or you can install X-Win32 or Hummingbird which can do it them selves. Regards, Atiur --- Wais Rene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear All > > Im trying to install ns2.29 under Fedora Linux 7. When trying to run a > simulation a got the following mistake: > > nam: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable. > > My environment variable file ./bashrc look like this: > > > *exportPATH=$PATH:/home/ns-allinone-2.29/bin:/home/ns-allinone-2.29 > /tcl8.4.11/unix:/home/ns-allinone-2.29 /tk8.4.11/unix > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ns-allinone-2.29/otcl-1.11 > export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/ns-allinone-2.29/lib > export TCL_LIBRARY=/home/ns-allinone-2.29/tcl8.4.11/library* > * * > And i added the line *export DISPLAY=:0.0 *at the end the end but the result > is the same > > Can somebody please tell me what i should do to overcome this difficulty? > > Thanks in advance > > Regards > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ