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