Re: /bin/sh: 1: lpr: not found on jessie amd64
On Sun 25 Oct 2015 at 04:29:14 +0000, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > The packages cups-bsd, lpr, and lprng all have lpr. Try installing them
> > and removing them in turn, and see which works.
>
> Installation of cups-bsd did the trick.
So it should. For all practical purposes the lp and lpr commands do the
same thing when used with CUPS.
> BTW, I tried installing lpr before and it did not help.
lprng cannnot co-exist with CUPS on the same machine.
> This is weird, since I've looked into my i386 installation and neither
> cups-bsd, nor lprng, nor lpr are installed there. Why all at sudden cups-
> bsd was necessary on amd64?
Maybe the application could have been adjusted to use lp.
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