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1 | .\" dpkg manual page - deb-preinst(5) |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 3 | .\" Copyright © 2016 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> | |
| 4 | .\" | |
| 5 | .\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 6 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 7 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 8 | .\" (at your option) any later version. | |
| 9 | .\" | |
| 10 | .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 11 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 12 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 13 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 14 | .\" | |
| 15 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 16 | .\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 17 | . | |
| 18 | .TH deb\-preinst 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" | |
| 19 | .nh | |
| 20 | .SH NAME | |
| 21 | deb\-preinst \- package pre-installation maintainer script | |
| 22 | . | |
| 23 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 24 | preinst | |
| 25 | . | |
| 26 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 27 | A package can perform several pre-installation actions via maintainer | |
| 28 | scripts, by including an executable \fIpreinst\fP file in its control | |
| 29 | archive (i.e. \fIDEBIAN/preinst\fP during package creation). | |
| 30 | .PP | |
| 31 | The script can be called in the following ways: | |
| 32 | .TP | |
| 33 | \fInew-preinst\fP \fBinstall\fP | |
| 34 | Before the package is installed. | |
| 35 | .TP | |
| 36 | \fInew-preinst\fP \fBinstall\fP \fIold-version new-version\fP | |
| 37 | Before removed package is upgraded. | |
| 38 | .TP | |
| 39 | \fInew-preinst\fP \fBupgrade\fP \fIold-version new-version\fP | |
| 40 | Before the package is upgraded. | |
| 41 | .TP | |
| 42 | \fIold-preinst\fP \fBabort-upgrade\fP \fInew-version\fP | |
| 43 | If \fIpostrm\fP fails during upgrade or fails on failed upgrade. | |
| 44 | . | |
| 45 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 46 | .BR dpkg (1). |