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How to do this depends on your system. If you're using a debian-derived distro you'll have dpkg, if you're not you won't.
How to make them 'available to all users of the system' depends on what things you want to make available to what users.
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dpkg-statoverride
dpkg-statoverride(1) dpkg suite dpkg-statoverride(1)
NAME
dpkg-statoverride - override ownership and mode of files
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-statoverride [option...] command
DESCRIPTION
"stat overrides" are a way to tell dpkg(1) to use a different owner or mode for a path when a package is installed (this applies to any
filesystem object that dpkg handles, including directories, devices, etc.). This can be used to force programs that are normally setuid to
be install without a setuid flag, or only executable by a certain group.
dpkg-statoverride is a utility to manage the list of stat overrides. It has three basic functions: adding, removing and listing overrides.
COMMANDS
--add user group mode path
Add an override for path. path does not need to exist when this command is used; the override will be stored and used later. Users
and groups can be specified by their name (for example root or nobody), or by their number by prepending the number with a '#' (for
example #0 or #65534). The mode needs to be specified in octal.
If --update is specified and path exists, it is immediately set to the new owner and mode.
--remove path
Remove an override for path, the status of path is left unchanged by this command.
--list [glob-pattern]
List all overrides. If a glob pattern is specified restrict the output to overrides which match the glob.
--help Show the usage message and exit.
--version
Show the version and exit.
OPTIONS
--admindir directory
Change the directory of the dpkg database where the statoverride file is also stored. Defaults to /var/lib/dpkg.
--force
Force an action, even if a sanity check would otherwise prohibit it. This is necessary to override an existing override.
--update
Immediately try to change the path to the new owner and mode if it exists.
--quiet
Be less verbose about what we do.
EXIT STATUS
0 The requested action was successfully performed.
1 For --list, if there are no overrides or none match the supplied glob.
2 Fatal or unrecoverable error due to invalid command-line usage, or interactions with the system, such as accesses to the database,
memory allocations, etc.
ENVIRONMENT
DPKG_ADMINDIR
If set and the --admindir option has not been specified, it will be used as the dpkg data directory.
FILES
/var/lib/dpkg/statoverride
File which contains the current list of stat overrides of the system. It is located in the dpkg administration directory, along with
other files important to dpkg, such as status or available.
Note: dpkg-statoverride preserves the old copy of this file, with extension "-old", before replacing it with the new one.
SEE ALSO
dpkg(1).
1.19.0.5 2018-04-16 dpkg-statoverride(1)