.TH DEBPKG 1 "Debian Utilities" "DEBIAN" \" -*- nroff -*- .SH NAME debpkg \- wrapper for dpkg .SH SYNOPSIS \fBdebpkg\fP \fIdpkg-options\fP .SH DESCRIPTION \fBdebpkg\fR simply invokes \fBdpkg\fP(1) but first becomes superuser so that \fBdpkg\fP 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. .SH REQUIREMENTS \fBdebpkg\fP must be given superuser privileges in some way to function properly. \fBAccess to debpkg with those privileges is the same as having superuser access to your machine.\fP \fBdebpkg\fP will abort if it finds that it neither being run by root nor setuid root. .PP The \fBdevscripts\fR package has been designed to allow \fBdebpkg\fR to be made setuid root. This works by using a compiled wrapper script, which means that \fBsuidperl\fR is not required. See \fBdpkg-statoverride\fR(8) if you wish to make this program setuid root. \fBsudo\fR or \fBsuper\fR could also conceivably be used. .SH AUTHOR Christoph Lameter ; minor modifications made by Julian Gilbey .