postinst is in octave 4.2.2-1ubuntu1.
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 31 32 | #!/bin/sh
#
# postinst script for the Debian GNU/Linux octave packages
set -e
rebuild_pkg_database () {
# Invoke /usr/bin/octave explicitly to build the system package cache.
# Ensures that our instance of octave has its package cache updated
# correctly, rather than whichever octave happens to be first in $PATH.
/usr/bin/octave --silent --no-history --no-init-file --no-window-system \
--eval "pkg ('rebuild');"
}
case "$1" in
configure)
rebuild_pkg_database
;;
triggered)
rebuild_pkg_database
;;
abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
;;
*)
echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
;;
esac
exit 0
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