Many distros also allow persistent overlays on the Live USB images. I know Fedora does, at least. The overlay works as a way to make permanent changes to the Live USB, but is limited by the size of the overlay partition. On Fri, Dec 25, 2020 at 9:10 AM Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 2:34 PM Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Shalom >> >> I haven't used live USBs much so this may be an >> easy question to answer. I've been running Linux Mint >> from a USB stick. It works fine, but each time I use it >> I have to get some packages (git, C++ compiler, etc.) >> again. I get the packages with apt-get install ... >> Is there a way to get the packages to last from one boot >> to the next? Tia >> > > Brian, > > I did something like this once with Ubuntu. Instead of using apt (which > grabs the latest packages and its dependencies) I just grabbed the .deb > files that matched the running version of the live OS. Then I just put > together a shell script to install them in the proper order. If you want > to update after that you can, but you'll be updating a LOT of packages as a > live distro gets quite stale. > > But... why would you? What's your motivation for running a live system > full time? > > Brian > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Jeff Chapin President, CedarLug, retired President, UNIPC, "I'll get around to it" President, UNI Scuba Club Senator, NISG, retired -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20201225/a11d9fde/attachment.htm>