| 1 | --- |
| 2 | id: building-from-source |
| 3 | --- |
| 4 | |
| 5 | As [previously stated](#doc-installing-lttng), LTTng is shipped as |
| 6 | three packages: LTTng-tools, LTTng-modules and LTTng-UST. LTTng-tools |
| 7 | contains everything needed to control tracing sessions, while |
| 8 | LTTng-modules is only needed for Linux kernel tracing and LTTng-UST is |
| 9 | only needed for user space tracing. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | The tarballs are available in the |
| 12 | <a href="http://lttng.org/download#build-from-source" class="ext">Download |
| 13 | section</a> of the LTTng website. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | Please refer to the `README.md` files provided by each package to |
| 16 | properly build and install them. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | <div class="tip"> |
| 19 | <p> |
| 20 | <span class="t">Tip:</span>The aforementioned <code>README.md</code> files |
| 21 | are rendered as rich text when |
| 22 | <a href="https://github.com/lttng" class="ext">viewed on GitHub</a>. |
| 23 | </p> |
| 24 | </div> |