How to Install and Uninstall proot Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 04,2024

1. Install "proot" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install proot on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)


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

Learn how to uninstall proot on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                proot
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the proot package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: proot
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 2233
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Rémi Duraffort
Architecture: amd64
Version: 5.1.0-1vivid1ubuntu1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.15), libtalloc2 (>= 2.0.4~git20101213)
Filename: pool/universe/p/proot/proot_5.1.0-1vivid1ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 73760
MD5sum: 4bdc22222ff8b874f3c0e114a38f0e2f
SHA1: 189f72c03babc1f0c1fcd0c8dd25d0eecc80586f
SHA256: 4aeb0dbe0443ce589998f4739d39e36c86ea00074d3f32a4ab39afc1c1f364ee
Description-en: emulate chroot, bind mount and binfmt_misc for non-root users
PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount --bind,
and binfmt_misc.
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This means that users don't need any privileges or setup to do things like
using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files
accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs
built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode.
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Also, developers can add their own features or use PRoot as a Linux process
instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism.
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Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in
every Linux kernel.
Description-md5: f74471c95fd77fd66894129479bbdcba
Homepage: http://proot.me
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu