Arch Linux: Fakeroot

[ghost]

Makepkg requires fakeroot, which doesn't work because it requires SYSV support and fakeroot-tcp is required instead. However fakeroot-tcp is a aur package and requires makepkg to be built. What I have done is patch makepkg and then make fakeroot-tcp with sudo

I suggest that a script to replace fakeroot with fakeroot-tcp be made so that others don't have to go through this hassle
fakeroot-tcp

sudo pacman -S filesystem glibc sed util-linux po4a sharutils

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/vendor_perl (required to run po4a)

Then replace /bin/fakeroot with fakeroot-tcp (rename it as fakeroot)

[CodeJoule]

What I just did is went through the fakeroot-tcp PKGBUILD and run everything by hand. I also edited makepkg the same way you did, but I dunno if that was needed. Once fakeroot-tcp was installed I simply restored the original makepkg (I made a backup) and was able to use makepkg normally.

However, it took me houurrsss, because the install UserLAnd gives you is so barebones that I was getting a lot of errors during compiling, due to missing dependencies. Or maybe I should blame Arch instead of UserLAnd, since Arch itself is barebones. Next time, if I did it again, I would install base-devel and remove fakeroot. Then install the dependencies for fakeroot-tcp and then compile/install it.

I am new to UserLAnd, so I can't really help much, but if I get the chance and the knowledge to do it, I could help in the future. linex4lif, 😁

So I support this. It would save users lots of time and hassle trying to get the AUR to work, or even installing a new Android kernel (if that would even solve the problem).

[hacker1024]

It's been almost a year, any progress?
I found this Reddit comment quite helpful to work around the issue.