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deb-preinst(5) dpkg suite deb-preinst(5)
deb-preinst - package pre-installation maintainer script
preinst
A package can perform several pre-installation actions via
maintainer scripts, by including an executable preinst file in
its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/preinst during package
creation).
The script can be called in the following ways:
new-preinst install
Before the package is installed.
new-preinst install old-version new-version
Before removed package is upgraded.
new-preinst upgrade old-version new-version
Before the package is upgraded.
old-preinst abort-upgrade new-version
If postrm fails during upgrade or fails on failed upgrade.
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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⟨https://salsa.debian.org/dpkg-team/dpkg.git⟩ on 2021-04-01. (At
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1.19.6-2-g6e42d5 2019-03-25 deb-preinst(5)
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