dpkg-trigger(1)

NAME
dpkg-trigger - a package trigger utility

SYNOPSIS
dpkg-trigger [option...] trigger-name
dpkg-trigger [option...] command

DESCRIPTION
dpkg-trigger is a tool to explicitely activate triggers and check for its support on the running dpkg.

This can be used by maintainer scripts in complex and conditional situations where the file triggers, or the declarative activate triggers control file directive, are insufficiently rich. It can also be used for testing and by system administrators (but note that the triggers won't actually be run by dpkg-trigger).

Unrecognised trigger name syntaxes are an error for dpkg-trigger.

COMMANDS

--check-supported
    Check if the running dpkg supports triggers (usually called from a postinst). Will exit 0 if a triggers-capable dpkg has run, or 1 with an error message to stderr if not. Normally, however, it is better just to activate the desired trigger with dpkg-trigger.

-h, --help
    Show the usage message and exit.

--version
    Show the version and exit.

--license, --licence
    Show the copyright licensing terms and exit.

OPTIONS

--admindir=dir
    Change the location of the dpkg database. The default location is /var/lib/dpkg.

--by-package=package
    Override trigger awaiter (normally set by dpkg through the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE environment variable of the maintainer scripts, naming the package to which the script belongs, and this will be used by default).

--no-await
    This option arranges that the calling package T (if any) need not await the processing of this trigger; the interested package(s) I, will not be added to T's trigger processing awaited list and T's status is unchanged. T may be considered installed even though I may not yet have processed the trigger.

--no-act
    Just test, do not actually change anything.

SEE ALSO
dpkg(1), deb-triggers(5), /usr/share/doc/dpkg/triggers.txt.gz.