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Package: fakeroot (1.12.4)

Gives a fake root environment

This package is intended to enable something like: 

  dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
i.e. to remove the need to become root for a package build. This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so, which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod, stat, and so on, thereby creating a fake root environment.

fakeroot requires SYSV IPC or TCP to operate.

Tags: Software Development: Packaging, Implemented in: C, sh, bash, ksh, tcsh and other shells, User Interface: Command Line, Role: Program, Shared Library, Scope: Utility, Application Suite: Debian

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
alpha 111.5 kB432 kB [list of files]
amd64 113.9 kB444 kB [list of files]
armel 96.0 kB364 kB [list of files]
hppa 106.2 kB384 kB [list of files]
i386 112.3 kB440 kB [list of files]
ia64 129.8 kB500 kB [list of files]
mips 93.9 kB372 kB [list of files]
mipsel 96.3 kB372 kB [list of files]
powerpc 127.4 kB516 kB [list of files]
s390 123.5 kB472 kB [list of files]
sparc 116.5 kB460 kB [list of files]