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Tips, tricks and frequently asked questions
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I'm having problems when building a container (e.g. ``fakeroot``-errors)
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Sometimes when the host system and the guest container have operating systems
from different eras (e.g. Ubuntu 16.04 is really old), you might want to
use the
`pre-built Apptainer binaries <https://apptainer.org/docs/admin/main/installation.html#install-unprivileged-from-pre-built-binaries>`__.
These can be installed without any privileges.

The reason for this errors is that a critical piece of software called GLIBC
might be too new in the host system. For more info, see the third point in
`Apptainer's fakeroot documentation <https://apptainer.org/docs/user/latest/fakeroot.html>`__.


Where should I install my software?
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