[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] becoming root in scratchbox

[From: Karoliina Salminen]

Hello,

In scratchbox you are not supposed to use root user.
However, you are supposed to use fakeroot.

Try fakeroot dpkg -i xyz
- no password is asked

Similarly building a package goes as follows:
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
- again, no password needed

Use fakeroot in place of sudo. Do not try to use root
user, it is unnecessary in Scratchbox, fakeroot does the same thing
and conveniently without need for typing root password.

Please see www.scratchbox.org documentation for more information.

Best Regards,
Karoliina Salminen
http://www.karoliinasalminen.com/blog


Chris Bare said:
> I'm trying to install libexpat1_1.95.8-3_i386.deb and
> libexpat1-dev_1.95.8-3_i386.deb inside scratchbox. (I downloaded these
> files from http://repository.maemo.org/pool/maemo1.1rc5/free/e/expat/)
>
> I tried dpkg -i libexpat1_1.95.8-3_i386.deb
>
> but it says:
> dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
>
> when I try to su within scratchbox, my normal root password does not
> work. I tried "rootme" and got:
>
> su: cannot set groups: Operation not permitted
>
> what am I doing wrong here?
> Is this even the right way to make libexpat available so that I can
> compile a program that uses it?
>
> --
> Chris Bare
> chris at bareflix.com
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