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lp Command Gives Error “no default destination available”

in Linux

Applies To:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A and later

Oracle Linux

Symptoms:

The system is configured with multiple printers in CUPS.

The printers are ready and available in lpstat.

Printing a file to one of the configured printers gives an error:

$ lp -P PRINTER-NAME document_name.pdf
lp: Error - no default destination available.

Cause:

This is caused by the fact that the system does not have a default printer in CUPS and the command being used is not identifying the printer to use.

To specify the destination printer, the flag needs to be used is ‘-d’.

Solution:

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