Originally Posted by juiceme

Sharing just the binary file might not be enough. As it is linked against a bunch of libraries it might well be that at least some of those libs are installed from binutils package...

Code:

~ $ 
~ $ which strings
/usr/bin/strings
~ $ 
~ $ ldd /usr/bin/strings
	libbfd-2.19.51.20090709.so => /usr/lib/libbfd-2.19.51.20090709.so (0x3aabc000)
	libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x411e8000)
	libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x41408000)
	libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x41180000)
	libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x41030000)
	/lib/ld-linux.so.3 (0x41000000)
~ $