v7 man page for deb-postinst

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

NAME

       deb-postinst - package post-installation maintainer script

SYNOPSIS

       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.

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

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

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

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

SEE ALSO

       dpkg(1).

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