How do I install these printing and mail related utilities?

Question

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

• lp
• lpstat
• cancel
• mail

I have no idea how to do it.

Thank you very much in advance for your time.

Answer 1

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

• set up a Print server

• set up a Mail server

Answer 2

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