How To Install libfakeroot on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is libfakeroot

libfakeroot 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 the LD_PRELOAD libraries.

There are three methods to install libfakeroot 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 libfakeroot Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install libfakeroot

Install libfakeroot Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install libfakeroot

Install libfakeroot 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 libfakeroot using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libfakeroot

How To Uninstall libfakeroot on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove libfakeroot

Uninstall libfakeroot And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libfakeroot

Remove libfakeroot Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge libfakeroot

Remove libfakeroot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libfakeroot

Dependencies

libfakeroot have the following dependencies:

• libc6

References

• libfakeroot website

Summary

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