How do I install these printing and mail related utilities?

Question

My job wants me to install the following utilities on our Ubuntu server:

I have no idea how to do it.

Thank you very much in advance for your time.

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

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In order to use lp, lpstat and cancel, you need to install and configure a printer.

In the process of installing the printer, you're going to install cups-client, which contains these utilities.

The mail program is in mailutils

To install both of these, type

sudo apt-get install cups-client
sudo apt-get install mailutils

Afterwards, you may want to

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

answered Feb 13 '11 at 17:57

Stefano Palazzo

It is important to note that `mail` itself won't work without a mail server. – raj May 30 '21 at 12:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 30 '21 at 09:10

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Install the cups-client and mailutils packages.

You can do this from GUI (System → Administration → Synaptic Package Manager) or using the command line (terminal) with this command:

sudo apt-get install cups-client mailutils

edited May 30 '21 at 09:10

BeastOfCaerbannog

answered Feb 13 '11 at 17:56

LGB

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