Installing the utilities from the binary tarball

The easiest way to install the Ksplice utilities 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-0.9.9-bin-i386.tar.gz
user@localhost:~$ cd ksplice-0.9.9
user@localhost:~$ ./configure
user@localhost:~$ make
[the user should then become root]
root@localhost:~# make install

Installing the utilities from source

Installing the Ksplice utilities 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-0.9.9-src.tar.gz
user@localhost:~$ cd ksplice-0.9.9
user@localhost:~$ ./configure
user@localhost:~$ make
[the user should then become root]
root@localhost:~# make install

If you install from a clone of the Git repository, you must run “autoconf” before you can run “./configure”.