preinst is in r-base-core 3.0.2-1ubuntu1.
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 33 34 | #!/bin/sh
#
# preinst script for the Debian GNU/Linux r-base-core package
# This version written by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
set -e
case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
# edd 06 Feb 2006 2.2.1-4 created this symlink, we now want a directory
if [ -h /usr/lib/R/share ]
then
echo "Removing symbolic link /usr/lib/R/share"
rm /usr/lib/R/share
fi
# edd 27 Jul 2006 this is now a softlink but used to be a dir
dir=/usr/share/doc/r-base-core/doc
if [ -d $dir ] && [ ! -h $dir ]
then
rmdir $dir
fi
;;
abort-upgrade)
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
;;
esac
exit 0
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