The libtracefs and libtraceevent packages are required for trace-cmd and libtracecmd.so In order to create a package directory with libtraceevent, libtracefs and libtracecmd and trace-cmd, you can follow these steps: git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.git cd libtraceevent INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/install ../trace-cmd/make-trace-cmd.sh install cd ../libtracefs INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/install ../trace-cmd/make-trace-cmd.sh install cd ../trace-cmd INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/install ./make-trace-cmd.sh install install_libs cd /tmp/install tar cvjf /tmp/trace-cmd-files.tar.bz2 . And then the tarball of /tmp/trace-cmd-files.tar.bz2 will can be extracted on another machine at the root directory, and trace-cmd will be installed there. Note, to define a prefix, add a PREFIX variable before calling make-trace-cmd.sh For example: PREFIX=/usr/local INSTALL_PATH=/tmp/install ./make-trace-cmd.sh install