Add 'fakeroot' to the list of packages, since this script uses it...

build/install-build-deps.sh

 #!/bin/bash -e
 
 # Script to install everything needed to build chromium (well, ideally, anyway)
 # See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions
 # and http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuild64Bit
 
 if ! egrep -q "Ubuntu 8.04|Ubuntu 8.10" /etc/issue; then
   echo "Only Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10 are currently supported" >&2
   exit 1
 fi
 
 if ! uname -m | egrep -q "i686|x86_64"; then
   echo "Only x86 architectures are currently supported" >&2
   exit
 fi
 
 if [ "x$(id -u)" != x0 ]; then
   echo "Running as non-root user."
   echo "You might have to enter your password one or more times for 'sudo'."
   echo
 fi
 
 # Packages need for development
-dev_list="subversion pkg-config python perl g++ g++-multilib bison flex gperf
-          libnss3-dev libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnspr4-dev libsqlite3-dev
-          wdiff lighttpd php5-cgi msttcorefonts sun-java6-fonts libgconf2-dev"
+dev_list="bison fakeroot flex g++ g++-multilib gperf libgconf2-dev
+          libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev libnspr4-dev libnss3-dev
+          libsqlite3-dev lighttpd msttcorefonts perl php5-cgi
+          pkg-config python subversion sun-java6-fonts wdiff"
 
 # Full list of required run-time libraries
 lib_list="libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libfreetype6
           libglib2.0-0 libgtk2.0-0 libnspr4-0d libnss3-1d libpango1.0-0
           libpcre3 libpixman-1-0 libpng12-0 libstdc++6 libsqlite3-0 libx11-6
           libxau6 libxcb-xlib0 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1
           libxdmcp6 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxinerama1 libxrandr2
           libxrender1 zlib1g"
 
 # Debugging symbols for all of the run-time libraries
@@ skipping 201 matching lines @@
              sed -e 's/[.]so[.][0-9].*/.so/' |
              sort -u); do
     [ "x${i##*/}" = "xld-linux.so" ] && continue
     [ -r "$i" ] && continue
     j="$(ls "$i."* | sed -e 's/.*[.]so[.]\([^.]*\)$/\1/;t;d' |
          sort -n | tail -n 1)"
     [ -r "$i.$j" ] || continue
     sudo ln -s "${i##*/}.$j" "$i"
   done
 fi