lpr and /etc/alternatives/print-lpr
Fred Nastos
nastos at physics.utoronto.ca
Wed May 12 16:06:22 UTC 2004
Hi,
I updated a redhat7.3 system to fedora for a friend (so I don't know
all the system details), but now his computer can't print. It looks
like lpr, and associated printing commands are missing.
When I type
ls -la /usr/bin | grep " lp"
I get, among others, the following entries:
lrwxrwxrwx root 26 May 9 2003 lp -> /etc/alternatives/print-lp
lrwxrwxrwx root 27 May 9 2003 lpq -> /etc/alternatives/print-lpq
lrwxrwxrwx root 23 May 9 2003 lpr -> /etc/alternatives/print
lrwxrwxrwx root 28 May 9 2003 lprm -> /etc/alternatives/print-lprm
lrwxrwxrwx root 30 May 9 2003 lpstat -> /etc/alternatives/print-lpstat
But the linked-to files in /etc/alternatives do not exist. In fact, some
of these link to other files that do not exist.
Is there any straight-forward way to get printing back. I'd rather not
resort to copying /usr/bin/lpr etc.. from another computer.
Thanks
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