Libelf provides routines to access and manipulate elf object files. it is still not complete, but is required for a number of programs, such as eli (a state of the art compiler generation system), and elk (the extension language kit - an implementation of the scheme programming language.)

this development library is only needed if you intend to compile, or write, your own programs with this library. it holds the static linking library (.a), and the required .so link to libelf0.so.0. to run programs linked with this library, install the libelfg0 package.