redhat man page for deb-postrm

deb-postrm(5)							    dpkg suite							     deb-postrm(5)

NAME

       deb-postrm - package post-removal maintainer script

SYNOPSIS

       postrm

DESCRIPTION

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

       The script can be called in the following ways:

       postrm remove
	      After the package was removed.

       postrm purge
	      After the package was purged.

       old-postrm upgrade new-version
	      After the package was upgraded.

       new-postrm failed-upgrade old-version new-version
	      If the above upgrade call fails.

       postrm disappear overwriter-package overwriter-version
	      After all of the packages files have been replaced.

       new-postrm abort-install
	      If preinst fails during install.

       new-postrm abort-install old-version new-version
	      If preinst fails during upgrade of removed package.

       new-postrm abort-upgrade old-version new-version
	      If preinst fails during upgrade.

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1).

1.19.0.5							    2018-04-16							     deb-postrm(5)