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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 properly.  Access to debpkg
       with  those  privileges  is the same as having superuser 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 setuid root.  This  works
       by using a compiled wrapper script, which means that suidperl is not required.  See dpkg-sta‐‐
       toverride(8) if you wish to make this program setuid root.  sudo or super could also conceiv‐
       ably be used.

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



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