preinst is in snmp 5.7.2~dfsg-8.1ubuntu3.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
if [ -L /usr/share/doc/snmp ]; then
rm -f /usr/share/doc/snmp
fi
if [ -d /usr/doc/snmp ]; then
rm -rf /usr/doc/snmp
fi
killall -u snmp 2>/dev/null || true
;;
abort-upgrade)
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
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