<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Brian,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The inherit nature of a LIVE system on a thing (usually a DVD/CD) is that it’s RO media.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class="">Ryan <br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 23, 2020, at 2:02 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:woodbrian77@gmail.com" class="">woodbrian77@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Shalom<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I haven't used live USBs much so this may be an</div><div class="">easy question to answer. I've been running Linux Mint</div><div class="">from a USB stick. It works fine, but each time I use it</div><div class="">I have to get some packages (git, C++ compiler, etc.)</div><div class="">again. I get the packages with apt-get install ...</div><div class="">Is there a way to get the packages to last from one boot </div><div class="">to the next? Tia</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Brian</div><div class="">Ebenezer Enterprises - Enjoying programming again.</div><div class=""><a href="https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards" class="">https://github.com/Ebenezer-group/onwards</a><br class=""></div></div>
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