# Source: fakeroot # Package: fakeroot # Versions: fakeroot (1.11), fakeroot (1.11.4), fakeroot (1.12.1), fakeroot (1.12.2), fakeroot (1.12.3), fakeroot (1.12.4), fakeroot (1.12.5), fakeroot (1.13), fakeroot (1.13+b1), fakeroot (1.13.1), fakeroot (1.14), fakeroot (1.14.2), fakeroot (1.14.3), fakeroot (1.14.4-1), fakeroot (1.14.4-2), fakeroot (1.14.5-1), fakeroot (1.14.5-2), fakeroot (1.5.10), fakeroot (1.9.6) # Prioritize: 47 Description: 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. Description-fi: . # other Descriptions of the fakeroot package with a translation in fi: #