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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20201225/5933b5c9/attachment.htm>