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Name fakeroot
Version 1.31
Category development
Description Gives a fake root environment, useful for building packages as a non-privileged user.
Maintainer slaxemulator​@​gmail.com
License GPL2
Website https://wiki.debian.org/FakeRoot
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Description

Gives a fake root environment, to remove the need to become root for a package build.

Fakeroot runs a command in an environment where it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. This is useful for allowing users to create archives (tar, ar, .deb etc.) with files in them with root permissions or ownership. Without fakeroot one would have to have root privileges to create the constituent files of the archives with the correct permissions and ownership, and then pack them up, or one would have to construct the archives directly, without using the archiver.

6025 packages and 203154 files in current database (Thu Apr 25 06:17:47 2024)