I'm totally lost! I need a driver for an HP 990cxi printer. I am both 
old and quite unused to working with the terminal. I downloaded the 
self-extracting driver program hplip-1.7.2.run successfully, and started 
the installation process. I was asked questions that meant nothing to 
me. (I had never heard of Postfix before! Later I discovered that it has 
to do with mail.  I don't understand what that has to do with the 
printer, and discovered that the definitive work on that subject runs to 
300 pages. Beyond me, I'm sure.)
The program hung, at the point of looking for dependencies and 
conflicts. (I waited for at least an hour.) I tried to reconfigure 
Postfix, but the shell didn't recognize the command line (dpkg  
--reconfigure Postfix) that I had carefully written down during the 
installation process. The new driver seems not to have been installed 
(the printer still runs very slowly, as compared with what it used to do 
in Windows and in SUSE 10.0).
Is my mail (Thunderbird) 'broken' as the installation program warned me? 
Is there any way of backing out of this situation short of re-installing 
Ubuntu -- and putting up with a slow printer?
Sorry to bother you,
                                     John R. Ward

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