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.
