Source: fakeroot-ng Section: utils Priority: extra Maintainer: Shachar Shemesh Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9), autotools-dev, gcc (>= 4:4.7), g++ (>= 4:4.7) Homepage: http://fakeroot-ng.lingnu.com Standards-Version: 3.9.5.0 Package: fakeroot-ng Architecture: i386 powerpc amd64 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Description: Gives a fake root environment This is a clean reimplementation of the fakeroot command. Just like it, anything run within the fake root command will assume it is running as root. Unlike it, fakeroot-ng is not based on LD_PRELOAD but on ptrace. . The practical upshot of this is that the technology supports intercepting the "open" system call. In particular, this allows simulating the "chroot" command reliably. . Another important difference is that fakeroot-ng can fool applications that do not perform system calls through glibc, such as statically linked executables and programs written in some non-C languages (like the latest Sun JDK).