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deb-postrm(5) dpkg suite deb-postrm(5)
deb-postrm - package post-removal maintainer script
DEBIAN/postrm
A package can perform several post-removal actions via maintainer
scripts, by including an executable postrm file in its control
archive (i.e. DEBIAN/postrm during package creation).
The script can be called in the following ways:
postrm remove
After the package was removed.
postrm purge
After the package was purged.
old-postrm upgrade new-version
After the package was upgraded.
new-postrm failed-upgrade old-version new-version
If the above upgrade call fails.
The new-version is passed only since dpkg 1.18.5.
postrm disappear overwriter-package overwriter-version
After all of the packages files have been replaced.
new-postrm abort-install
If preinst fails during install.
new-postrm abort-install old-version new-version
If preinst fails during install for an upgrade of a removed
package.
The new-version is passed only since dpkg 1.18.5.
new-postrm abort-upgrade old-version new-version
If preinst fails during upgrade.
The new-version is passed only since dpkg 1.18.5.
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-postrm(5)
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