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When I try to print via Xprint I get the message “Fatal server error: unable to exec /usr/bin/lp\”. What is going wrong here ?

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When I try to print via Xprint I get the message “Fatal server error: unable to exec /usr/bin/lp\”. What is going wrong here ?

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This usually means that the spooler application “/usr/bin/lp” could not be launched. This is usually the result when /usr/bin/lp does not exist or cannot be executed (for example, shell scripts without the +x (executable) flag etc.).