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Sunday, November 24, 2013

Download and Install SUMO - Simulation of Urban MObility on Ubuntu

SUMO is an open source, microscopic and continuous road traffic simulation package designed to handle large road networks. The advantage is that it is open source. In this post, we will follow the steps to install SUMO on Ubuntu. The version we will install is Version 0.18.

The SUMO site is at the following location:




The downloads link provides the links to download and install the software.



We will install a pre-compiled binary to get started. To install the software on Ubuntu, we need to add the repository to the apt package using the following command.

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sumo/stable



Entering gives several prompts for entering the password and confirming the installation.



Next, we need to install the sumo, sumo-tools and sumo-doc packages on our machine.

$ sudo apt-get install sumo sumo-tools sumo-doc



Entering the command downloads the files and prompts to start installation on the machine.



After clicking yes, SUMO is installed on the machine.

To check, open a new terminal window or within the same window, type the following command, and we can see the results from the program.

$ sumo --help



There we go, we have installed SUMO on our machine.

Happy simulating