Etcher

Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly, and much more. It can also directly flash Raspberry Pi devices that support USB device boot mode.

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Supported Operating Systems

• Linux (most distros)
• macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) and later
• Microsoft Windows 7 and later

Note: Etcher will run on any platform officially supported by Electron. Read more in their documentation.

Installers

Refer to the downloads page for the latest pre-made installers for all supported operating systems.

Packages

Debian and Ubuntu based Package Repository (GNU/Linux x86/x64)

Package for Debian and Ubuntu can be downloaded from the Github release page

1. Install using dpkg

      sudo dpkg -i balena-etcher_******_amd64.deb

   If you're missing dependencies you can fix them with:

      sudo apt update && apt --fix-broken install #to add potential missing dependencies

Uninstall

sudo apt-get remove balena-etcher
apt clean
rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
apt update

Redhat (RHEL) and Fedora-based Package Repository (GNU/Linux x86/x64)

Yum

Package for Fedora-based and Redhat can be downloaded from the Github release page

1. Install using yum

   sudo yum localinstall balena-etcher-***.x86_64.rpm

Arch/Manjaro Linux (GNU/Linux x64)

Etcher is offered through the Arch User Repository and can be installed on both Manjaro and Arch systems. You can compile it from the source code in this repository using balena-etcher. The following example uses a common AUR helper to install the latest release:

yay -S balena-etcher

Uninstall

yay -R balena-etcher

WinGet (Windows)

This package is updated by gh-action, and is kept up to date automatically.

winget install balenaEtcher #or Balena.Etcher

Uninstall

winget uninstall balenaEtcher

Chocolatey (Windows)

This package is maintained by @majkinetor, and is kept up to date automatically.

choco install etcher

Uninstall

choco uninstall etcher

Support

If you're having any problem, please raise an issue on GitHub, and the balena.io team will be happy to help.

License

Etcher is free software and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the license.