BOFH excuse #448:
vi needs to be upgraded to vii
dan@vicarious: ~
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure life
[sudo] password for dan:
Package `life’ is not installed and no info is available.
Use dpkg –info (= dpkg-deb –info) to examine archive files,
and dpkg –contents (= dpkg-deb –contents) to list their contents.
/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: life is not installed
dan@vicarious: ~
$