X-Git-Url: http://git.lttng.org./?a=blobdiff_plain;f=contents%2Finstalling-lttng%2Fintro.md;h=fc34ed564590fd60cf70e96bf94e76afdf55c5ee;hb=55369b8f3d9c6c843ca6fe5b60fef869f9487f40;hp=5d69a66a6772bb49dff4876baceb8ed93b2bc7fc;hpb=5e0cbfb01373c18e521217342fd8a9159cc186b1;p=lttng-docs.git diff --git a/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md b/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md index 5d69a66..fc34ed5 100644 --- a/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md +++ b/contents/installing-lttng/intro.md @@ -3,24 +3,27 @@ id: installing-lttng --- **LTTng** is a set of software components which interact to allow -instrumenting the Linux kernel and user applications and controlling -tracing sessions (starting/stopping tracing, enabling/disabling events, -etc.). Those components are bundled into the following packages: +instrumenting the Linux kernel and user applications as well as +controlling tracing sessions (starting/stopping tracing, +enabling/disabling events, and more). Those components are bundled into +the following packages: - * **LTTng-tools**: Libraries and command line interface to control - tracing sessions - * **LTTng-modules**: Linux kernel modules allowing Linux to be - traced using LTTng - * **LTTng-UST**: User space tracing library + * **LTTng-tools**: libraries and command line interface to control + tracing sessions. + * **LTTng-modules**: Linux kernel modules for tracing the kernel. + * **LTTng-UST**: user space tracing library. Most distributions mark the LTTng-modules and LTTng-UST packages as -optional. In the following sections, we always provide the steps to -install all three, but be aware that LTTng-modules is only required if +optional. In the following sections, the steps to install all three are +always provided, but note that LTTng-modules is only required if you intend to trace the Linux kernel and LTTng-UST is only required if you intend to trace user space applications. This chapter shows how to install the above packages on a Linux system. The easiest way is to use the package manager of the system's distribution ([desktop](#doc-desktop-distributions) or -[embedded](#doc-embedded-distributions)). Otherwise, you can +[embedded](#doc-embedded-distributions)). Support is also available for +[enterprise distributions](#doc-enterprise-distributions), such as +Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES). +Otherwise, you can [build the LTTng packages from source](#doc-building-from-source).