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Gaurav Agarwal
Asked: 2012-08-14 04:36:29 +0800 CST

How to install dpkg-reconfigure?

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

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  1. Best Answer

    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

    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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. If debconf is installed, it's located in /usr/sbin what might not be in your PATH variable.

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