A tool that:

• 🌳 turns ldd into a tree
• ☝️ explains how shared libraries are found or why they cannot be located

By default, certain standard dependencies are not shown. For more verbose output use

• libtree -v Show libraries skipped by default
• libtree -vv Show dependencies of libraries skipped by default
• libtree -vvv Show dependencies of already encountered libraries

Use the --path or -p flags to show paths rather than sonames:

• libtree -p $(which tar)

Use --max-depth to limit the recursion depth.

• Prebuilt binaries for v3.1.1

  arch	sha256sum
  aarch64 (linux)	c5d4fbcd4e3fb46f02c028532f60fcf1c92f7c6aad5b07a991c67550c2554862
  armv6l (linux)	16f5a7503a095bd88ebc5e21ec4ba8337c5d9712cac355bf89399c9e6beef661
  armv7l (linux)	17f493621e7cc651e2bddef207c1554a64a114e1c907dbe5b79ff0e97180b29e
  i686 (linux)	230a163c20f4a88a983d8647a9aa793317be6556e2c6a79e8a6295389e651ef5
  x86_64 (linux)	49218482f89648972ea4ef38cf986e85268efd1ce8f27fe14b23124bca009e6f

• Fedora / RHEL / CentOS

  $ dnf install epel-release # For RHEL and derivatives enable EPEL first 
  $ dnf install libtree-ldd

• Ubuntu 22.04+

  apt-get install libtree

• GNU Guix

  guix install libtree

• Older release v2.0.0

libtree requires a C compiler that understands c99

git clone https://github.com/haampie/libtree.git
cd libtree
make # recommended: LDFLAGS=-static

curl -Lfs https://raw.githubusercontent.com/haampie/libtree/master/libtree.c | ${CC:-cc} -o libtree -x c - -std=c99 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64