How To Install fakechroot on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fakechroot.
Install fakechroot on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the fakechroot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fakechroot
fakechroot Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
