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Installing Software in recovery mode

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For some reason I can only successfully boot into recovery mode. I want to install drivers software updates, etc. My question is. If I install these software in recovery mode will they be applies like they normally would in the normal (non-recovery)?

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answered 1 Year ago eving · Accepted Answer

Why is your system not booting in the normal mode? Do you see any errors or indications why it failed?

You can install software in the recovery mode, but there are a couple of things to keep in mind:

Only / is mounted, so if you have a separate /var, /usr, /home, you need to mount then yourself

Filesystems are mounted read-only, so you need to remount them using sudo mount -o remount,rw /

Drivers for your network card or wireless interface may not be loaded

Packages installed in the recovery mode do persist in the normal mode.