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Installing Mininet

Document Version: 06-20-2021

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Installing Mininet

Contents

1 Installing Mininet from packages................................................................................ 3


2 Using Miniedit ............................................................................................................. 5
References .......................................................................................................................... 8

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Installing Mininet

This short guide describes the steps required to install Mininet on a Linux. The guide
assumes that you are running a recent version of Ubuntu. The version of Linux used in
this guide is Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS.

1 Installing Mininet from packages

Step 1. Launch a Linux terminal by holding the Ctrl+Alt+T keys or by clicking on the
Linux terminal icon.

Step 2. Make sure that the list of packages from all repositories is up to date by running
the following command. When prompted to enter a password, please enter the password
of the account you are currently logged into.

sudo apt-get update

Step 3. Install the mininet package by entering the following command.

sudo apt-get install mininet

Press Y key on your keyboard to proceed with the installation.

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Step 4. At this point, if there was no error during the installation process, you should have
mininet installed on your machine. Issue the following command to start mininet’s
Command Line Interface (CLI). This command creates a simple topology consisting of one
switch (s1) and two hosts (h1, h2).

sudo mn

Step 5. By default, the Open vSwitch (OVS) package is installed when installing mininet.
OVS is the virtual switch that will be used to connect devices in mininet. To test if mininet
is working properly, issue the following command in mininet’s CLI.

mininet> pingall

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The figures above shows that h1 was able to reach h2 and h2 was able to reach h1. It also
shows that 0% packets were dropped. This confirms that mininet and the virtual switch
are properly installed.

2 Using Miniedit

Mininet has a Graphical User Interface (GUI) known as Miniedit. Miniedit is a simple
python program that provides a GUI which allows creating and managing topologies.

Step 1. Install git in case it is not installed on your machine by using the following
command.

sudo apt-get install git

Step 2. Clone the mininet repository from GitHub by using the following command on a
Linux terminal.

git clone https://github.com/mininet/mininet

Step 3. Install python-pip3 package in case it is not installed on your system.

sudo apt install python3-pip

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Step 4. Install mininet using pip3 by entering the following command.

sudo pip3 install mininet

Step 5. Install tkinter by entering the following command

sudo apt-get install python3-tk

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Step 6. Install xterm package by entering the following command.

sudo apt-get install xterm

Step 7. Check if Miniedit is ready to be started. Start Miniedit by entering the following
command.

sudo python3 mininet/examples/miniedit.py

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If the output is similar to the figure above, then Miniedit is ready.

References

1. Mininet walkthrough. [Online]. Available: http://Mininet.org.


2. Mininet Github repo. [Online]. Available: https://github.com/mininet/mininet

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