For more information on contributing please see: https://www.trace-cmd.org Note: The official repositiory for trace-cmd and KernelShark is here: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/trace-cmd/trace-cmd.git For bug reports and issues, please file it here: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/buglist.cgi?component=Trace-cmd%2FKernelshark&product=Tools&resolution=--- These files make up the code that create the trace-cmd programs. This includes the GUI interface application kernelshark as well as trace-graph and trace-view. These files also make up the code to create the libtracecmd library. The applications are licensed under the GNU General Public License 2.0 (see COPYING) and the libraries are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License 2.1 (See COPYING.LIB). BUILDING: In order to install build dependencies on Debian / Ubuntu do the following: sudo apt-get install build-essential git pkg-config -y sudo apt-get install libtracefs-dev libtraceevent-dev -y In order to install build dependencies on Fedora, as root do the following: dnf install gcc make git pkg-config -y dnf install libtracefs-devel libtraceevent-devel -y In case your distribution does not have the required libtracefs and libtraceevent libraries, build and install them manually: git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtraceevent.git/ cd libtraceevent make sudo make install git clone https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/libtrace/libtracefs.git/ cd libtracefs make sudo make install To make trace-cmd make To make the gui make gui INSTALL: To install trace-cmd make install To install the gui make install_gui Note: The default install is relative to /usr/local The default install directory is /usr/local/bin The default plugin directory is /usr/local/lib/trace-cmd/plugins To change the default, you can set 'prefix', eg mkdir $HOME/test-trace make prefix=$HOME/test-trace make prefix=$HOME/test-trace install