contents/installing-lttng/building-from-source.md

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   5 As [previously stated](#doc-installing-lttng), LTTng is shipped as
   6 three packages: LTTng-tools, LTTng-modules and LTTng-UST. LTTng-tools
   7 contains everything needed to control tracing sessions, while
   8 LTTng-modules is only needed for Linux kernel tracing and LTTng-UST is
   9 only needed for user space tracing.
  10
  11 The tarballs are available in the
  12 <a href="http://lttng.org/download#build-from-source" class="ext">Download
  13 section</a> of the LTTng website.
  14
  15 Please refer to the `README.md` files provided by each package to
  16 properly build and install them.
  17
  18 <div class="tip">
  19 <p>
  20 <span class="t">Tip:</span>The aforementioned <code>README.md</code> files
  21 are rendered as rich text when
  22 <a href="https://github.com/lttng" class="ext">viewed on GitHub</a>.
  23 </p>
  24 </div>