Stored for now in https://gitlab.tails.boum.org/tails/tails/-/issues/19320.
David A. Wheeler:
On Feb 1, 2024, at 5:25 AM, anonym <ano...@riseup.net> wrote:
But, as already shown above, Tails allows you to customize it extensively
through the persistence feature. The Additional Software persistence feature
[3] allows you to keep any package from Debian installed and up-to-date, so
just install python3-pip and the other tools you like that way.
[3] https://tails.net/doc/persistent_storage/additional_software/
A persistent storage feature for user installed python packages could also be
designed to be a hook that adds the appropriate corresponding .local folders to
the persistence.conf upon activation of the feature.
It is not a documented feature any more (I think because of bugs like #19267)
but you can also make any folder persistent yourself. Start Tails with an
administration password, login, start a Root Terminal.
This makes ~/.local persistent:
echo '/home/amnesia/.local source=dot-local' \
>> /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/persistence.conf
You can do this multiple times, so this also makes the pip cache persistent:
echo '/home/amnesia/.cache/pip source=pip-cache' \
>> /live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/persistence.conf
The `source=pip-cache` part means that the data will be stored on the
persistent storage in `/live/persistence/TailsData_unlocked/pip-cache`, so just
make sure to never re-use the same source as any other line in that file. You
must restart Tails for lines added like this to take effect.
I strongly recommend *documenting* this capability (e.g., in "additional
software").
There's no way this group can directly support all special needs, but
documenting how
people can self-help would be really valuable. A few specific examples of
common cases
(I'd put pip in that category) would be especially helpful.
--- David A. Wheeler
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