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B<fakeroot> works by replacing the file manipulation library functions (chmod(2), stat(2) etc.) by ones that simulate the effect the real library functions would have had, had the user really been root. These wrapper functions are in a shared library B</usr/lib/*/libfakeroot-*.so> or similar location on your platform. The shared object is loaded through the B<LD_PRELOAD> mechanism of the dynamic loader. (See B<ld.so>(8))

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If you intend to build packages with B<fakeroot>, please try building the fakeroot package first: the "debian/rules build" stage has a few tests (testing mostly for bugs in old fakeroot versions). If those tests fail (for example because you have certain libc5 programs on your system), other packages you build with fakeroot will quite likely fail too, but possibly in much more subtle ways.

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Also, note that it's best not to do the building of the binaries themselves under fakeroot. Especially configure and friends don't like it when the system suddenly behaves differently from what they expect (or, they randomly unset some environment variables, some of which fakeroot needs).

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OPTIONS

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B<-l> I<library>, B<--lib> I<library>

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Specify an alternative wrapper library.

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B<--faked>I<\ binary>

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Specify an alternative binary to use as faked.

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B<[--]>I<\ command>

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Any command you want to be run as fakeroot. Use \(oq--\(cq if in the command you have other options that may confuse fakeroot's option parsing.