fakeroot-sysv

tool for simulating superuser privileges

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/fakeroot-sysv.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install fakeroot
Ubuntu
apt-get install fakeroot
Alpine
apk add fakeroot
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S fakeroot
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install fakeroot
CentOS
yum install fakeroot
Fedora
dnf install fakeroot
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fakeroot
OS X
brew install fakeroot
Raspbian
apt-get install fakeroot
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/fakeroot-sysv fakeroot-sysv powered by Commando

fakeroot

tool for simulating superuser privileges

fakeroot provides a fake "root environment" by means of LD_PRELOAD and SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(), stat(), and other file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged users can (for instance) populate .deb archives with root-owned files; various build tools use fakeroot for this by default. This package contains fakeroot command and the daemon that remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.