Installation

Different people have different opinions when it comes to how to install a program. Some may prefer using system package manager while others might like downloading a prebuilt binary. But don’t worry, tracexec supports a wide variety of installation methods.

Before installation, you can check the platform support status.

Install via Package Managers

tracexec is packaged in the following distributions.

Arch Linux (And Arch-based distributions)

tracexec is available in extra repository for Arch Linux. You can install it via

sudo pacman -S tracexec

Nix

To try tracexec without system-wide installation, running

nix-shell -p tracexec

will drop you into a shell where tracexec is available.

NixOS

If you are using NixOS, you should already have your preferred way to install packages.

e.g. by adding pkgs.tracexec to environment.systemPackages

Prebuilt Binaries

For stable versions, we release binaries in GitHub Releases.

Currently we offer two flavors of binaries

• Normal builds that dynamically links most dependencies except libbpf.
• Fully statically-linked builds which statically links all libraries including glibc.

Install from Source

Please refer to Building from Source for dependencies and feature flags.

To install the current stable version of tracexec. Run

cargo install tracexec --bin tracexec

To install the bleeding-edge main branch git version of tracexec. Run

cargo install --git https://github.com/kxxt/tracexec --bin tracexec