How To Install fakeroot on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot on Rocky Linux 8. fakeroot is Gives a fake root environment

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakeroot on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install fakeroot.

Install fakeroot on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install fakeroot

Install fakeroot on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fakeroot

fakeroot Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.