How To Install fakechroot on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on CentOS 7. fakechroot is Gives a fake chroot environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on CentOS 7.

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 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fakechroot.

Install fakechroot on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install fakechroot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fakechroot

Install fakechroot on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install fakechroot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fakechroot

How To Uninstall fakechroot on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the fakechroot package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove fakechroot

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.