fakeroot: fakeroot (provides a faked root environment suitable for many tasks) fakeroot: fakeroot: Fakeroot makes it possible to run commands in an environment faking fakeroot: root privileges. This is done by setting LD_PRELOAD to libfakeroot.so, fakeroot: which provides wrappers around getuid, chown, chmod, mknod, stat, and fakeroot: so on, thereby creating a fake root environment. fakeroot: fakeroot: fakeroot: fakeroot: fakeroot: