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I bought a new macbook pro last weekend. It already came with Lion and iLife installed, but no recovery dvd/usb stick. Now I had to recover the system, tried with the Lion download on the Cmd+R system but it took too long to download, so I ended up using the recovery USB stick that I bought to install Lion on my iMac.
However I have realised that iLife is no longer installed on the system (it was there when I first started the machine after purchase).
How can I get this back?
Thanks in advanced

Is this what you did?
After installation, start from Lion.
Double-click the App Store icon in the dock.
Enter your Apple ID and password.
Click Purchases.
If you haven't previously accepted your bundled iLife applications within the Mac App Store, you should see your iLife applications appear in the Accept portion of the screen. Click Accept.
You may be asked for your Apple ID and password once again. Your iLife applications now move to the Purchased section. These applications are part of the software that came with your Lion based computer. Your account will not be charged for them. Click Install to compete installation of your applications.

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