<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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