Luke's Ubuntu and Linux Hacks

(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) For reasons you should not care about, recently I found myself needing to hook up my trusty, but well-worn and somewhat ancient HP Laser Jet 1020 to my Ubuntu Linux 25.04 machine. Several years ago this same printer was hooked up to another Linux machine, probably with Ubuntu 19.04 or thereabout. When I set out to connect to my current computer, I recalled that HP had some site where you could go to download drivers, and I recalled that the last time I installed this printer I used the terminal to download all sorts of supporting files. I also had a vague, somewhat repressed memory of what a pain in the bippu...

(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.)