deb-postinst - package post-installation maintainer script
NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION SEE ALSONAME
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).