proot 5.4.0

Unprivileged chroot, bind mount, and binfmt_misc

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 file system, making files accessible somewhere else in the file system hierarchy, or executing programs built for another CPU architecture transparently through QEMU user-mode. Also, developers can use PRoot as a generic process instrumentation engine thanks to its extension mechanism. Technically PRoot relies on ptrace, an unprivileged system-call available in the kernel Linux.

Website: https://github.com/proot-me/PRoot
Licenses: GPL 2+
Package source: gnu/packages/linux.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install proot 5.4.0 as follows:

guix install proot@5.4.0

Or install the latest version:

guix install proot

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.