How To Install proot on Ubuntu
Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )
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Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install proot on Ubuntu.
What is proot
proot is:
PRoot is a user-space implementation of chroot, mount –bind, and binfmt_misc.
This means that users don’t need any privileges or setup to do things like using an arbitrary directory as the new root filesystem, making files accessible somewhere else in the filesystem hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode.
Also, developers can add their own features or use PRoot as a Linux process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism.
Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in every Linux kernel.
There are three methods to install proot on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install proot Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install proot using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install proot
Install proot Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install proot using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install proot
Install proot Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install proot using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install proot
How To Uninstall proot on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the proot package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove proot
Uninstall proot And Its Dependencies
To uninstall proot and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove proot
Remove proot Configurations and Data
To remove proot configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge proot
Remove proot configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove proot configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge proot
Dependencies
proot have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install proot package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.