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Title: Install a program for another non-sudo user as a sudo user
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Sudo can let you act as another user even if you don’t know their password. It can be done as detailed in this answer:

sudo as another user with their environment

Here is an example from the answer (granted on my single user system):

$ whoami
rick

$ sudo -i -u root whoami
root

So in your case use:

sudo -i -u usertofake install_something