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Gqqnbig
Asked: 2020-06-19 17:47:42 +0800 CST

Run additional software on ubuntu live (temporalily)

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The disk of my computer is corrupted. I plan to use Ubuntu to recover data on the disk.

I went to my friend's home and made a Ubuntu USB stick. I don't think the Ubuntu USB stick has a persistent storage portion.

My computer successfully boots from the Ubuntu USB stick, but my recovery requires additional software.

$ sudo apt-get install testdisk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package testdisk

$ sudo apt-get update
...                  
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/restricted Translation-en [2,272 B]                     
Fetched 3,789 kB in 12s (297 kB/s)                                                                             

** (appstreamcli:4232): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
AppStream cache update failed.
Reading package lists... Done

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apt-get reports error, I guess it's because the USB stick is kind of read-only mode?

I don't want to bother my friend again to make a persistent USB stick.

What is the easiest way to run additional software on Ubuntu Live?

live-usb 16.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Installing testdisk for single use

    You do not need persistence to (hopefully) run testdisk just once.

    Add universe repository

    sudo add-apt-repository universe

    Update

    sudo apt-get update

    Install testdisk

    sudo apt-get install testdisk

    Run testdisk

    testdisk

    Above works for me on balenaEtcher Live USB using Ubuntu 16.04.5 running on 4GB USB2 thumbdrive.

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