How to Install and Uninstall fakeroot Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: May 05,2024

1. Install "fakeroot" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install fakeroot on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fakeroot
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fakeroot" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall fakeroot on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fakeroot
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fakeroot package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: fakeroot
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.25.3-1.1ubuntu2
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Clint Adams
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 228
Depends: libfakeroot (>= 1.25.3-1.1ubuntu2), libc6 (>= 2.33)
Filename: pool/main/f/fakeroot/fakeroot_1.25.3-1.1ubuntu2_amd64.deb
Size: 62888
MD5sum: fda35cb500902b8bdccbd18b560aa30d
SHA1: 7b1f9a353010b0c2f148caf7bd2676630d567e15
SHA256: 4afcae59a418c28c02ede40d829da99accc69c8fe89c233778509ef376562912
SHA512: 6854186b6aaf6e8d9c4fad94dc9859c190285d24ed51bad36dc10bc3cb432e4baac9c4d4421704eec1b254bdfae0d9b29f5e608c787033b7b2c364fac5616132
Description-en: tool for simulating superuser privileges
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.
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This package contains fakeroot command and the daemon that remembers
fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot
processes.
Description-md5: db2730aa4872dbe27ff20c4aad3c5429
Task: ubuntustudio-video, ubuntu-mate-core, ubuntu-mate-desktop