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Tool for simulating superuser privileges

fakeroot runs a command in an environment where it appears to have root privileges for file manipulation. It does this by means of LD_PRELOAD and SYSV IPC (or TCP) trickery.

Version: 1.37 License: GPL-3+ GitHub
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