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deb-postinst(5)                dpkg suite                deb-postinst(5)

NAME

       deb-postinst - package post-installation maintainer script

SYNOPSIS

       DEBIAN/postinst

DESCRIPTION

       A package can perform several post-installation actions via
       maintainer scripts, by including an executable postinst file in
       its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/postinst during package
       creation).

       The script can be called in the following ways:

       postinst configure old-version
           After the package was installed.

       postinst triggered "trigger-name..."
           After the package was triggered.  The list of space-separated
           trigger-names is passed as the second argument.

       old-postinst abort-upgrade new-version
           If prerm fails during upgrade or fails on failed-upgrade.

       old-postinst abort-remove
           If prerm fails during remove.

       postinst abort-deconfigure in-favour new-package new-version
              [ removing old-package old-version ]
           If prerm fails during deconfigure in-favour of a package.

       postinst abort-remove in-favour new-package new-version
           If prerm fails during remove in-favour for replacement due to
           conflict.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1).

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1.22.0-52-g1af0                2023-08-30                deb-postinst(5)

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