rob stone (HE12025-05-01):

I bought a new HP printer and in order to set it up you need to access 123.hp.com. From there I downloaded hplip-3.25.2.run.

What a disaster. It deleted ALL programs such as evolution, firefox,
gnome, etc.

Sorry you had to learn that lesson the hard way.

So I need help in finding out exactly "how" to make it connect in
recovery mode in order to run apt and restore my laptop to working
again.

I think it will be less painful for you to backup your data and system
config files to an external device and then reinstall.

Regards,

--
Nicolas George

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Hello,

I bought a new HP printer and in order to set it up you need to access 123.hp.com. From there I downloaded hplip-3.25.2.run.

What a disaster. It deleted ALL programs such as evolution, firefox,
gnome, etc.

I can start my laptop in recovery mode, but no connection to the
outside world. I can run "dpkg -l | grep firefox" and it will tell me
that only the configuration file is present.

If I run "ifup --all" it turns on the wifi antenna but the discovery
phase times out and no connection is obtained.

So I need help in finding out exactly "how" to make it connect in
recovery mode in order to run apt and restore my laptop to working
again.

TIA,
Robert

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On Thu, 01 May 2025 22:27:11 +1000
rob stone <floriparob@tpg.com.au> wrote:

I bought a new HP printer and in order to set it up you need to access 123.hp.com. From there I downloaded hplip-3.25.2.run.

hplip 3.22.10+dfsg0-2 is available from the Debian repos. If you must
have hplip, I suggest you use that after you recover your system. If
your printer is "driverless" you may not need it.

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On Thu, 2025-05-01 at 15:26 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:

rob stone (HE12025-05-01):

I bought a new HP printer and in order to set it up you need to
access
123.hp.com. From there I downloaded hplip-3.25.2.run.

What a disaster. It deleted ALL programs such as evolution,
firefox,
gnome, etc.

Sorry you had to learn that lesson the hard way.

So I need help in finding out exactly "how" to make it connect in
recovery mode in order to run apt and restore my laptop to working
again.

I think it will be less painful for you to backup your data and
system
config files to an external device and then reinstall.

Regards,

Partially solved.
I changed /etc/network/interfaces to use eno1, plugged in the ethernet
cable and it successfully connected.

Rescued most of the packages.

Quite a relief.

Regards,
Robert

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On 01.05.2025 15:20 Uhr rob stone wrote:

I bought a new HP printer and in order to set it up you need to access 123.hp.com. From there I downloaded hplip-3.25.2.run.

hplip is included in Debian repo, use that if you can. If you need a
newer version, use backports.

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rhkramer@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):

What lesson is that?

Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.

Regards,

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Nicolas George

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On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 15:31:18 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:

rhkramer@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):

What lesson is that?

Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.

Or more generally: "Third-party package repositories are often not as high-quality as Debian's repositories."

Assuming it even *was* a package repository, and not just a loose
standalone .deb file. Either way, anything of that nature should be
approached with all due caution.

For the OP, I'm guessing at some point they ran a command like:

apt install hplip

Or possibly:

apt install ./Downloads/hplip_*.deb

Or in the VERY worst-case scenario:

dpkg -i ./Downloads/hplip_*.deb && apt -f install

In any of these scenarios, you should at some point have received a
dire warning that a whole slew of packages would be removed, and that
you needed to confirm this deletion. The correct answer at that point
would have been "NO!".

At which point, you should report your goal, your attempted solution,
and your observed results to this mailing list, and someone will (we hope)
be able to guide you from there.

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Nicolas George wrote:

rhkramer@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):

What lesson is that?

Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.

That includes the privilege of being you, a user whose data is
close at hand and readable, if not even deletable.

Creating a new user and switching to it takes ten seconds to a
minute, depending on whether you need the new user to run in a
GUI.

-dsr-

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On 2025-05-02 at 09:43, Greg Wooledge wrote:

On Fri, May 02, 2025 at 15:31:18 +0200, Nicolas George wrote:

rhkramer@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):

What lesson is that?

Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.

Or more generally: "Third-party package repositories are often not as high-quality as Debian's repositories."

Assuming it even *was* a package repository, and not just a loose
standalone .deb file. Either way, anything of that nature should be approached with all due caution.

For the OP, I'm guessing at some point they ran a command like:

apt install hplip

Or possibly:

apt install ./Downloads/hplip_*.deb

Or in the VERY worst-case scenario:

dpkg -i ./Downloads/hplip_*.deb && apt -f install

From the original post, apparently it wasn't even a .deb file; it was a
.run file. In my experience, such a file is a shell script with an
embedded (usually self-extracting) binary payload, whose design intent
is that you run the shell script as root and it extracts and installs
the associated software.

--
The Wanderer

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw


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My guess: don't run code downloaded from random web sites, including (or especially?) for those sites that belong to large companies which care
only about their bottom line and not their users.


Stefan

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Hello,

On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 15:02 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:

On Fri, 02 May 2025 09:51:25 -0400
The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:

Hello,

It would seem OP has missed a step or two in their description of
events,
because a visit to 123.hp.com brings up this;

We're sorry, we don't support set-up with this operating system

If you scroll down a few centimetres you'll see:-

"After setup, you can print with Linux:"

However, the link pulls a 404 error.

So, you navigate to the regular support site.

HTH,

Robert

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