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Package: fakeroot

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.
This package contains fakeroot command and the daemon that remembers fake ownership/permissions of files manipulated by fakeroot processes.
copyright | Debian changelog | README

Manual pages:

faked-sysv(1) faked-tcp(1) fakeroot-sysv(1)
fakeroot-tcp(1)

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/fakeroot

Other packages built from the same source:

libfakeroot

Manual page search:

faked(1) faked-sysv(1) faked-tcp(1)
fakeroot(1) fakeroot-sysv(1) fakeroot-tcp(1)

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