How to install NetAnim on Debian 8.3

To install NetAnim on Debian 8.3

NetAnim is an offline animator built based on the Qt toolkit. It animates the simulation via XML trace file which is collected during simulation. Installing NetAmin is as simple as it sounds, and this article explains the method to install NetAnim on Debian 8.3

Installing NetAnim

Before installing NetAnim, make sure you add its repository to your machine. Use the following command to open the apt sources.list.

root@linuxhelp:~# nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Now add the following lines at end of the file.

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main

Once it is added, save and exit the file.

After that, use to following command to update the apt sources-list.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates InRelease [145 kB]
Ign http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie InRelease           
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release.gpg [2,373 B]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie Release [148 kB]                  
Get:4 http://ftp.de.debian.org jessie/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]      
Ign http://ftp.debian.org stable InRelease               
Get:5 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Sources [15.5 kB]
Get:6 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Sources [32 B]          
Get:7 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 Packages/DiffIndex [7,408 B]
Get:8 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib amd64 Packages [32 B]
Get:9 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/contrib Translation-en [14 B]
Get:10 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main Translation-en/DiffIndex [2,704 B]   
Get:11 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release.gpg [2,373 B]                  
Get:12 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:13 http://ftp.debian.org jessie-updates/main amd64 2017-03-14-2025.02.pdiff [526 B]
Get:14 http://ftp.debian.org stable Release [148 kB]                            
Get:15 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main amd64 Packages [6,776 kB]   
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Fetched 23.4 MB in 2min 47s (140 kB/s)                                                
Reading package lists... Done

Now is the time to install the NetAnim package. Use the following command for the same purpose.

root@linuxhelp:~# apt-get install netanim
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libqt4-svg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libqt4-svg netanim
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 264 not upgraded.
Need to get 319 kB of archives.
After this operation, 849 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ stable/main libqt4-svg amd64 4:4.8.6+git64-g5dc8b2b+dfsg-3+deb8u1 [177 kB]
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Setting up netanim (3.100-1) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-18+deb8u2) ...

NetAnim is now installed, use your activities search bar to find and launch the application.

Wasn' t it a simple installation? NetAnim is not just simple to install but also to use.