Alain Spineux wrote: <snip>
is missing, here is your problem
Look if cups is installed and if "alternative" is correctly set.
Yes, something looks amiss there. Thanks, I'll dig around
$ /usr/sbin/alternatives --display print
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/print lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Apr 17 2007 /etc/alternatives/print -> /usr/bin/lpr.cups
$ file /usr/bin/lpr.cups /usr/bin/lpr.cups: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, AMD x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.4.0, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped