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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 page
was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.debian.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2018-02-02. (At that
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1.18.15-3-ga2ef 1970-01-01 deb-preinst(5)
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