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
