The arb-sina-fat tarball contains * a sina binary and * several dynamic libraries required by that binary. The goal of this tarball is to allow running sina on some systems where it refuses to build. To install the sina version included here into an existing arb installation, use the script delivered together with arb for that purpose: arb_sina_install_from_fat_tarball.sh At the end of that script sina is called to test compatibility. If the build system and the target system are compatible, that call will print infos about this sina version. Otherwise it'll show some error, e.g. something like $ARBHOME/bin/fatsina/sina: error while loading shared libraries: lib_whatever.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory or $ARBHOME/bin/fatsina/sina: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found (required by $ARBHOME/bin/fatsina/libstdc++.so.6) $ARBHOME/bin/fatsina/sina: /lib/libpthread.so.0: version `GLIBC_2.12' not found (required by $ARBHOME/bin/fatsina/libglib-2.0.so.0) If you get any of such errors, your target system is not compatible enough. Your best chance is to try out an arb-sina-fat tarball built on another system. Alternatively you may try to move conflicting libraries into or out-of subdirs (some libraries like libglib are already placed in a subdir after unpacking). For recent linux distributions it should not be necessary to use this tarball, because sina should build there properly and should be included in and installed with arb. Please note that this sina version has been modified to interact with arb. Using precompiled sina versions from other sources are not expected to interact properly with arb. Sina is hosted at https://github.com/epruesse/SINA/ Documentation can be found at https://sina.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Sina is licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 (https://github.com/epruesse/SINA/blob/master/LICENSE)