Balena Etcher on Raspberry Pi!

Etcher is a disk utility software that we use to burn images to disks.

if you don't have a computer and you want to burn an image to a disk, you can now install etcher on your raspberry pi.

installing etcher is a very simple task.

HOW TO INSTALL

Before installing you have to update:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

After updating, the first thing you're going to have to do is download the zip file.

Next, you have to unzip the file.

To do that open your terminal(ctrl + alt + T), and type the following:

sudo unzip /path/to/Etcher.zip

Now that you have Unzipped it, navigate into the folder and run Etcher:

cd /path/to/Etcher/Balena\ Etcher/
sudo ./balena-etcher-electron

If you receive this error when running : ./balena-etcher-electron: error while loading shared libraries: libgconf-2.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

If you didn't get the error skip to CREATING A SHORTCUT

Then Enter the following command and rerun:

sudo apt-get install libgconfmm-2.6

You should now have Etcher up and running on your Pi!

CREATING A SHORTCUT

You might want to create a shortcut since it's a lot easier to launch from your desktop, rather than opening terminal whenever you want to launch it. IT'S TOO MUCH BOTHER!

To create a shortcut enter the following in the terminal:

sudo nano /usr/share/applications/etcher.desktop

In this file, we have to tell the shortcut where to find Etcher and what icon to use. To do that type this:

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Etcher
Comment=Disk Imaging Utility
GenericName=Balena Etcher
Exec=/path/to/Etcher/Balena\ Etcher/balena-etcher-electron
Icon=/home/pi/Pictures/Etcher-icon.png
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Type=Application
Categories=Utility;GTK;

Hit Ctrl + X then Y then Enter.

Download the icon and save it to your pictures folder. It Should be named "Etcher-icon" If not, rename it.

You're done! You should now be able to launch etcher from the Applications menu! :)