DH_INSTALLIFUPDOWN(1)

✨ DH_INSTALLIFUPDOWN(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this one's a debhelper manual page, and it's all about dh_installifupdown — the little icon that drops your if-up and if-down hooks into place 💅 no cap.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

dh_installifupdown — install if-up and if-down hooks 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dh_installifupdown [debhelper options] [--name=name]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so dh_installifupdown is a debhelper program, and its whole job — its entire main character moment — is installing if-up, if-down, if-pre-up, and if-post-down hook scripts into package build directories. that's it, that's the gig 🫶

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⭐ FILES ⭐

• debian/package.if-up
• debian/package.if-down
• debian/package.if-pre-up
• debian/package.if-post-down

these files get installed into etc/network/if-*.d/package in the package build directory. lowkey tidy, highkey iconic 🌈

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• --name=name — instead of using the usual files and installing them as the package name, look for files named debian/package.name.if-* and install those as etc/network/if-*/name. it's giving rebrand ✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• debhelper(7)

this program is a part of debhelper, periodt 🩷

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🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> 💜

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fr fr, if you got this far you're basically a Debian packaging girlie now. go slay 💅

version 14.5ubuntu1, dated 2026-09-21 — that's the whole manual, bestie, we ate and left no crumbs �code 💖