How To Install fakechroot on Rocky Linux 8

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

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install fakechroot on Rocky Linux 8.

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

Install fakechroot 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 fakechroot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fakechroot

Install fakechroot 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 fakechroot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fakechroot

How To Uninstall fakechroot on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove fakechroot

fakechroot Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/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 Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.