Brian, The inherit nature of a LIVE system on a thing (usually a DVD/CD) is that it’s RO media. You should check your /etc/fstab file to make sure it’s not loading RAM disk (or virtual disks) up for the R/W file systems and, if it is, consider installing the OS to a USB flash media instead of a LIVE USB — which is designed for testing/fixing things on a living system and not be your daily driver… — Ryan > On Nov 23, 2020, at 2:02 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 > Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again. > https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards <https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20201123/ef3c05b1/attachment.htm>