diff --git a/internal/rosa/all.go b/internal/rosa/all.go
index 19f4986..6ffbad4 100644
--- a/internal/rosa/all.go
+++ b/internal/rosa/all.go
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ const (
 	DTC
 	Diffutils
 	Elfutils
+	Fakeroot
 	Findutils
 	Flex
 	Fuse
@@ -163,6 +164,7 @@ func ResolveName(name string) (p PArtifact, ok bool) {
 		"dtc":               DTC,
 		"diffutils":         Diffutils,
 		"elfutils":          Elfutils,
+		"fakeroot":          Fakeroot,
 		"findutils":         Findutils,
 		"flex":              Flex,
 		"fuse":              Fuse,
diff --git a/internal/rosa/fakeroot.go b/internal/rosa/fakeroot.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dea7515
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/rosa/fakeroot.go
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+package rosa
+
+import "hakurei.app/internal/pkg"
+
+func (t Toolchain) newFakeroot() pkg.Artifact {
+	const (
+		version  = "1.37.2"
+		checksum = "4ve-eDqVspzQ6VWDhPS0NjW3aSenBJcPAJq_BFT7OOFgUdrQzoTBxZWipDAGWxF8"
+	)
+	return t.NewViaMake("fakeroot", version, t.NewPatchedSource(
+		"fakeroot", version, pkg.NewHTTPGetTar(
+			nil, "https://salsa.debian.org/clint/fakeroot/-/archive/upstream/"+
+				version+"/fakeroot-upstream-"+version+".tar.bz2",
+			mustDecode(checksum),
+			pkg.TarBzip2,
+		), false, [2]string{"remove-broken-docs", `diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
+index f135ad9..85c784c 100644
+--- a/doc/Makefile.am
++++ b/doc/Makefile.am
+@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
+ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS=foreign
+-SUBDIRS = de es fr nl pt ro sv
+ 
+ man_MANS = faked.1 fakeroot.1
+ 
+`},
+	), &MakeAttr{
+		Writable: true,
+
+		Env: []string{
+			"CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/sh",
+		},
+		ScriptEarly: `
+cd /usr/src/fakeroot
+./bootstrap
+`,
+
+		// makes assumptions about /etc/passwd
+		SkipCheck: true,
+	},
+		t.Load(M4),
+		t.Load(Perl),
+		t.Load(Autoconf),
+		t.Load(Automake),
+		t.Load(Libtool),
+		t.Load(PkgConfig),
+
+		t.Load(Attr),
+		t.Load(Libcap),
+		t.Load(KernelHeaders),
+	)
+}
+func init() { artifactsF[Fakeroot] = Toolchain.newFakeroot }