How To Install fakeroot on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot on Kali Linux.

What is fakeroot

fakeroot is:

fakeroot provides a fake “root environment” by means of LD_PRELOAD and SysV IPC (or TCP) trickery. It puts wrappers around getuid(), chown(), stat(), and other file-manipulation functions, so that unprivileged users can (for instance) populate .deb archives with root-owned files; various build tools use fakeroot for this by default.

This package contains fakeroot command and the daemon that remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.

There are three methods to install fakeroot on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install fakeroot Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install fakeroot using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install fakeroot

Install fakeroot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install fakeroot using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install fakeroot

Install fakeroot Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install fakeroot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install fakeroot

How To Uninstall fakeroot on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove fakeroot

Uninstall fakeroot And Its Dependencies

To uninstall fakeroot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove fakeroot

Remove fakeroot Configurations and Data

To remove fakeroot configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge fakeroot

Remove fakeroot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove fakeroot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fakeroot

Dependencies

fakeroot have the following dependencies:

• libfakeroot
• libc6

References

• fakeroot website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.