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