1. Dependences - Yarkane/Quantumnet GitHub Wiki
Python
Quantumnet uses Python 3, which is an interpreted programming language that you should know.
Mininet
Mininet is an open source software for some Linux distributions (not all of them !). You can find information about Mininet on the website http://mininet.org/ and you will be able to download it.
On http://mininet.org/download/ you will find all the ways to get it for your own use. The first option is by getting a virtual machine, this is a possibility if you current machine does not support Mininet.
Open Quantum Safe
The tools for Post Quantum Cryptography is very complex but, fortunately, open-source. The Open Quantum Safe project is an open-source project that aims to develop and distribute tools for searchers that want to prototype Post Quantum Cryptography. More can be found here : https://openquantumsafe.org/. What is useful for us is liboqs and oqs-openssl.