deb-postinst - package post-installation maintainer script
DEBIAN/postinst
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.
dpkg(1).