DEBPKG(1)

💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to DEBPKG(1) — the General Commands Manual page for the cutest little wrapper in the game: debpkg 💅✨

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. no cap, it's giving "let me handle the root stuff for you" energy 👑

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. lowkey a safety queen 🛡️💖

🫶 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. that's not a vibe to play with, bestie 😭

debpkg will abort if it finds that it neither being run by root nor setuid root. periodt — no root, no setuid root, no party 💀

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. slay, fewer moving parts ✨

See dpkg-statoverride(8) if you wish to make this program setuid root. sudo or super could also conceivably be used. iykyk 🦋

👑 AUTHOR 👑

the author vibes are Christoph Lameter <clameter@debian.org>; minor modifications made by Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org>. icons only 👑💖

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this one comes from DEBIAN / Debian Utilities, and the manual is DEBPKG(1). bye bye, go install something iconic 🎀✨🦋