lpq command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

lpq: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: lpq: command not found

Solutions to lpq: command not found

How To Fix lpq: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu lpq is provided by cups-bsd package.

cups-bsd is:

The Common UNIX Printing System (or CUPS(tm)) is a printing system and general replacement for lpr, lpd and the like. It supports the Internet Printing Protocol (IPP), and has its own filtering driver model for handling various document types.

This package provides the BSD commands for interacting with CUPS. It is provided separately to allow CUPS to coexist with other printing systems (to a small degree).

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install cups-bsd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install cups-bsd.

sudo apt -y install cups-bsd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install cups-bsd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix lpq command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.