<mail> command missing?

Mike Bird mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net
Tue Dec 13 11:23:39 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 03:03, David wrote:
> I've just done my second fresh install of Breezy (both for friends). 
> Apparently the "mail" unix command is missing! These seems really odd. 
> Have I missed something obvious?
> 
> It's not available from apt and I thought it was a basic shell command.
> 
> It's still there on two other machines that I upgraded from Hoary.
> /usr/bin/mail

You'll need to install the mailx package.  It was required by
ubuntu-base in Hoary but dropped for Breezy.  I have no idea why.

--Mike Bird





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