# dpkg manual page - deb-postinst(5) # # Copyright © 2016 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> # # This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. =encoding utf8 =head1 NAME deb-postinst - package post-installation maintainer script =head1 SYNOPSIS B<DEBIAN/postinst> =head1 DESCRIPTION A package can perform several post-installation actions via maintainer scripts, by including an executable I<postinst> file in its control archive (i.e. I<DEBIAN/postinst> during package creation). The script can be called in the following ways: =over =item I<postinst> B<configure> I<old-version> After the package was installed. =item I<postinst> B<triggered> "I<trigger-name...>" After the package was triggered. The list of space-separated I<trigger-name>s is passed as the second argument. =item I<old-postinst> B<abort-upgrade> I<new-version> If I<prerm> fails during upgrade or fails on failed upgrade. =item I<old-postinst> B<abort-remove> If I<prerm> fails during removal. =item I<postinst> B<abort-deconfigure in-favour> I<new-package new-version> =item S< >[ B<removing> I<old-package old-version> ] If I<prerm> fails during deconfiguration of a package. =item I<postinst> B<abort-remove in-favour> I<new-package new-version> If I<prerm> fails during replacement due to conflict. =back =head1 SEE ALSO B<dpkg>(1).