On Sat, 03 May 2025 11:03:30 +1000
rob stone wrote:
Hello rob,
>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.
Which is why I suggested OP must have missed a step or
Hello,
On Fri, 2025-05-02 at 15:02 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 02 May 2025 09:51:25 -0400
> The Wanderer 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 s
> What lesson is that?
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
On Fri, 02 May 2025 09:51:25 -0400
The Wanderer wrote:
Hello,
>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
That file seems to come from HP's Sourceforge repository and is a script
that calls itself a
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.
That includes the privilege of being you, a user whose data is
close at hand and readable, if not even deletable.
Creating a n
On 2025-05-02 at 09:43, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 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-p
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 Deb
rhkra...@gmail.com (HE12025-05-02):
> What lesson is that?
Never run a script with any privileges unless you know exactly what it
does.
Regards,
--
Nicolas George
@ Nicolas George:
On Friday, May 02, 2025 03:57:17 AM rob stone wrote:
> 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
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.
--
kind regards
Marco
Sen
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,
> >
On Thu, 01 May 2025 22:27:11 +1000
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 3.22.10+dfsg0-2 is available from the Debian repos. If you must
have hplip, I suggest you use that after you
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
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 c
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