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How to install PPAs and Proprietary Drivers on a persistent LiveUSB

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I am trying to create a USB Persistent Pen Drive that has all the last updates ahd the following "special" packages:

Added PPAs with the programs installed. For example Wine.

Proprietary Drivers like Nvidia and Broadcom.

Can I install this PPAs or proprietary drivers on a Persistent USB Pen Drive. I ask since in 11.04 and 11.10 I tried and I had problems with this. Will try on 12.04 when I buy a new pen drive.

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answered 3 Years ago ditery · Accepted Answer

You you can.

I would approach this as a full install to USB as opposed to a USB liveCD respin. It simplifies a lot of problems.

The problem with using a liveCD with persistence is that the paths on which you achieve persistence are limited.

It is much simpler to:

- do a full install to USB - preferred

- remaster the CD/DVD to include the updates and PPAs

If you do a full install to USB, it behaves exactly like a real install as long as you tweak grub to use disk labels instead of UUIDs.