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deb-postinst(5) dpkg suite deb-postinst(5)
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).
This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
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1.22.0-52-g1af0 2023-08-30 deb-postinst(5)
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