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