postinst is in mecab 0.996-1.2ubuntu1.
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 mecab
#
# see: dh_installdeb(1)
set -e
reconfigure(){
    if ( dpkg --status ${1} 2>/dev/null|egrep -q "^Status: install ok installed" ); then
	 dpkg-reconfigure ${1}
    fi
}
case "$1" in
    configure)
	reconfigure mecab-ipadic
	reconfigure mecab-jumandic
	;;
    abort-upgrade|abort-remove|abort-deconfigure)
	;;
    *)
        echo "postinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 1
    ;;
esac
# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
# generated by other debhelper scripts.
exit 0
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