How To Install fakechroot on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on CentOS 8.
What is fakechroot
fakechroot runs a command in an environment were is additionally possible to use the chroot(8) call without root privileges. This is useful for allowing users to create their own chrooted environment with possibility to install another packages without need for root privileges.
We can use yum or dnf to install fakechroot on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fakechroot.
Install fakechroot on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fakechroot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fakechroot
Install fakechroot on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install fakechroot using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fakechroot
How To Uninstall fakechroot on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fakechroot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fakechroot
fakechroot Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/fakechroot
/etc/fakechroot/chroot.env
/etc/fakechroot/debootstrap.env
/etc/fakechroot/rinse.env
/usr/bin/env.fakechroot
/usr/bin/fakechroot
/usr/bin/ldd.fakechroot
/usr/sbin/chroot.fakechroot
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot/README.md
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot/THANKS.md
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot/relocatesymlinks.sh
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot/restoremode.sh
/usr/share/doc/fakechroot/savemode.sh
/usr/share/licenses/fakechroot
/usr/share/licenses/fakechroot/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/fakechroot/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fakechroot.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.