How To Install fakeroot on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot on CentOS 8.
What is fakeroot
fakeroot runs a command in an environment wherein it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. fakeroot works by replacing the file manipulation library functions (chmod(2), stat(2) etc.) by ones that simulate the effect the real library functions would have had, had the user really been root.
We can use yum or dnf to install fakeroot on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fakeroot.
Install fakeroot 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 fakeroot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fakeroot
Install fakeroot 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 fakeroot using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install fakeroot
How To Uninstall fakeroot on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the fakeroot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fakeroot
fakeroot Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/faked
/usr/bin/faked-sysv
/usr/bin/faked-tcp
/usr/bin/fakeroot
/usr/bin/fakeroot-sysv
/usr/bin/fakeroot-tcp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/c038c94e34a53de73e6efb57fd8936ab1a700f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/d053744598bd0223917a38bd88b11fe5799052
/usr/share/doc/fakeroot
/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/BUGS
/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/DEBUG
/usr/share/doc/fakeroot/README.saving
/usr/share/man/de/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nl/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/faked.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/fakeroot.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.