# Source: fakeroot # Package: fakeroot # Versions: fakeroot (1.15-1), fakeroot (1.15.1-1), fakeroot (1.16-1), fakeroot (1.17-1), fakeroot (1.18-1), fakeroot (1.18.1-1), fakeroot (1.18.2-1), fakeroot (1.18.3-1), fakeroot (1.18.4-1), fakeroot (1.18.4-2), fakeroot (1.19-2), fakeroot (1.20-1) # Prioritize: 46 Description: 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. Description-fi: # other Descriptions of the fakeroot package with a translation in fi: #