How to install dpkg-reconfigure?

I want to install dpkg-reconfigure in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS install on Amazon EC2? How to go about it?

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dpkg-reconfigure is provided by the debconf package, which should always be installed in any Ubuntu 12.04 install. If it's not, use:

sudo apt-get install debconf

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In your case, you are running Amazon's AMI Linux which is based on CentOS, not Ubuntu. That's why apt-get or dpkg-reconfgure, which are native to Debian/Ubuntu, are not available on your EC2 instance.

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Normally it's already installed in Ubuntu. But if you are using some customized version without dpkg, you should be able to install using the command

sudo apt-get install dpkg

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On a fresh Kubuntu 12.10 install, you will need to install these additional packages:

• ia32libs (¼ GiB!)
• libc6-i386
• lib32asound2
• lib32z1
• nspluginwrapper

If you forget one, and try to install the Receiver deb package, the package system will end up in sort of a limbo. In that case (only!), run:

$ sudo dpkg -r icaclient

To remove the half-installed Receiver and start over.

After installing the 64-but Citrix Receiver 12.1 (or any NPAPI plugin for that matter), you need to reconfigure nspluginwrapper:

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure nspluginwrapper

This triggers the nspluginwrapper installer to look for new NPAPI plugins and link them into the various installed browsers in the correct manner.

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If debconf is installed, it's located in /usr/sbin what might not be in your PATH variable.

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