env.fakechroot command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

env.fakechroot: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: env.fakechroot: command not found

Solutions to env.fakechroot: command not found

How To Fix env.fakechroot: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu env.fakechroot is provided by fakechroot package.

fakechroot is:

The fakechroot preloads a library which overrides libc functions, so it is possible to use root-specific tools without root privileges.

In fake chroot you can install i.e. Debian bootstrap, create developer’s environment and build packages inside chroot’ed system using standard non-root user account.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fakechroot

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fakechroot.

sudo apt -y install fakechroot

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fakechroot

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix env.fakechroot command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.