How To Install fakechroot on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on Fedora 36.
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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fakechroot.
Install fakechroot on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install fakechroot using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install fakechroot
Install fakechroot on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
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 36
To uninstall only the fakechroot package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove fakechroot
fakechroot Package Contents on Fedora 36
/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 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).