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 v3.1.0

  arch	sha256sum
  aarch64 (linux)	c3d1e50801db8cd71427cccc00bb033211b68727ee5ff9858d5a22048fae4891
  armv6l (linux)	4608828d01c383fdf5c02535bcce70493955a38e46c1ae0a1063c667625d11da
  armv7l (linux)	9df3671b92151c01f37f3b38c1377dd2b179e559a033d9e23a22c669cc1cdae2
  i686 (linux)	fb83c54196d77bee4ba83c42f014e5b8fc359d8b02114387f7ad46fedc83faf5
  x86_64 (linux)	8d85183200300437b935574f259ed01efce4319eaec8525d87096c698a0f4c70

• 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

• 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