Investigate your dependencies with Deptective

Have you ever tried compiling a piece of open-source software, only to discover that you neglected to install one of its native dependencies? Or maybe a binary “fell off the back of a truck” and you want to try running it but have no idea what shared libraries it needs. Or maybe you need to use a poorly packaged piece of software whose maintainers neglected to list a native dependency.

Deptective, our new open-source tool, solves these problems. You can give it any program, script, or command, and it will find a set of packages sufficient to run the software successfully.

This is an excerpt from the Trail of Bits blog. You can read the full post here.