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Setting Permissions and fakeroot

Setting Permissions and fakeroot

Learn to set permissions for files, and use fakeroot to build Debian packages.

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Setting permissions

Debian packages contain the installation data as tarballs, and tar supports storing permissions, group, and ownership information. We can set these properties for the final package by putting files with the correct permissions and owner/group into the debian/<package-name> directory.

For example, if we want a file /usr/share/hello-debian/scores with permissions 0664 and group games, we could do something like this in our debian/rules file: ...