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