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SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

Posts: 150  

Is it possible to install a package permanently on Live ?

Hi,

Is it possible to install a package / program permanently on a Live version ?

or it's only possible by creating an .iso file ( refractasnapshot and refractainstaller for example )

and if only possible trough .iso can refractasnapshot work directly on a Live session ?

Thanks.

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Linux noob, plz be kind

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

Posts: 447  

Re: Is it possible to install a package permanently on Live ?

Add your program whilst running 'live', take a snapshot, put that snapshot onto your disk - that's how I've done it.

SpongeBOB

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From: Brussels

Registered: 2022-02-07

Posts: 150  

Re: Is it possible to install a package permanently on Live ?

Thank you Camtaf 👍

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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

Posts: 2,517  

Re: Is it possible to install a package permanently on Live ?

If you run refractasnapshot in a live session, be sure to edit the config file to use some real storage space for the work directory and the snapshot directory.

If you make a live-usb with an extra partition for full persistence, you can install packages and they will still be there on the next reboot. If you run apt-upgrade and apt-update on such a system, it will install the updated packages into the persistent volume. You could keep updating such a system until you fill up your usb stick. Better to update the iso and re-image the read-only part of the stick.