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fakeroot — Run a command in an environment faking root privileges for file manipulation. More information: <htt

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Problem

How to use the fakeroot command: Run a command in an environment faking root privileges for file manipulation. More information: <https://manned.org/fakeroot>.

Solution

fakeroot — Run a command in an environment faking root privileges for file manipulation. More information: <https://manned.org/fakeroot>.

Start the default shell as fakeroot:

fakeroot

Run a command as fakeroot:

fakeroot -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Run a command as fakeroot and [s]ave the environment to a file on exit:

fakeroot -s {{path/to/file}} -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Load a fakeroot environment and run a command as fakeroot:

fakeroot -i {{path/to/file}} -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Run a command keeping the real ownership of files instead of pretending they are owned by root:

fakeroot {{[-u|--unknown-is-real]}} -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Display help:

fakeroot {{[-h|--help]}}

Code Snippets

Start the default shell as fakeroot

fakeroot

Run a command as fakeroot

fakeroot -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Run a command as fakeroot and [s]ave the environment to a file on exit

fakeroot -s {{path/to/file}} -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Load a fakeroot environment and run a command as fakeroot

fakeroot -i {{path/to/file}} -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Run a command keeping the real ownership of files instead of pretending they are owned by root

fakeroot {{[-u|--unknown-is-real]}} -- {{command}} {{command_arguments}}

Context

tldr-pages: linux/fakeroot

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