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deb-prerm(5) dpkg suite deb-prerm(5)
deb-prerm - package pre-removal maintainer script
DEBIAN/prerm
A package can perform several pre-removal actions via maintainer
scripts, by including an executable prerm file in its control
archive (i.e. DEBIAN/prerm during package creation).
The script can be called in the following ways:
prerm remove
Before the package is removed.
old-prerm upgrade new-version
Before an upgrade.
new-prerm failed-upgrade old-version new-version
If the above upgrade fails.
The new-version is passed only since dpkg 1.18.5.
prerm deconfigure in-favour new-package new-version
[ removing old-package old-version ]
Before package is deconfigured while dependency is replaced
due to conflict.
prerm remove in-favour new-package new-version
Before the package is replaced 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
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1.22.0-52-g1af0 2023-08-30 deb-prerm(5)
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