debpkg

DEBPKG(1)                   General Commands Manual                  DEBPKG(1)

NAME
       debpkg - wrapper for dpkg

SYNOPSIS
       debpkg dpkg-options

DESCRIPTION
       debpkg  simply invokes dpkg(1) but first becomes superuser so that dpkg
       is able to install and remove packages.  It also cleans the environment
       and        resets       PATH       to       a       sane       default:
       "/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11" so that local versions  of
       programs are not run by accident.

REQUIREMENTS
       debpkg must be given superuser privileges in some way to function prop-
       erly.  Access to debpkg with those privileges is the same as having su-
       peruser  access to your machine.  debpkg will abort if it finds that it
       neither being run by root nor setuid root.

       The devscripts package has been designed to allow debpkg to be made se-
       tuid  root.  This works by using a compiled wrapper script, which means
       that suidperl is not required.  See dpkg-statoverride(8) if you wish to
       make this program setuid root.  sudo or super could also conceivably be
       used.

AUTHOR
       Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>; minor  modifications  made  by
       Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>.

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