7. Installing Bake

Bake is a build system orchestration tool that was primarily designed for installing ns-3 Direct Code Execution but can be used more generally to install ns-3 third-party libraries and apps.

Bake is a Python 3 program that requires the distro and requests packages; to start using Bake, it is generally sufficient to add those packages to your Python 3 installation using pip.

Bake is further documented elsewhere, including here and in the Getting Started chapter of the ns-3 tutorial.