Ksplice Installation Instructions

Installing from the binary tarball

The easiest way to install Ksplice on a system is to download and use the binary distribution tarball for your architecture: x86-32 or x86-64:

user@localhost:~$ tar zxf ksplice-VERSION-bin-ARCH.tar.gz
user@localhost:~$ cd ksplice-VERSION
user@localhost:~$ ./configure
user@localhost:~$ make
[the user should then become root]
root@localhost:~# make install

Installing from source

Installing from the source tarball requires that your machine have the GNU BFD library, which is part of GNU Binutils. The GNU BFD library is available in Debian's binutils-dev package and is also available in other Linux distributions.

user@localhost:~$ tar zxf ksplice-VERSION-src.tar.gz
user@localhost:~$ cd ksplice-VERSION
user@localhost:~$ ./configure
user@localhost:~$ make
[the user should then become root]
root@localhost:~# make install

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