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Etcher (also known by its full name, balenaEtcher) is a free, open-source image flasher, a utility for creating bootable SD cards or USB flash drives from .img and .iso files. Simple and user-friendly, Etcher is a good choice even for those who are not particularly tech-savvy.
The issue
After you downloaded Etcher from Etcher’s official website, you make it executable by right click on it then select the checkbox Allow executing file as program.
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After you give the AppImage permission to run as an application. When you right click on the app then select Run or double-click the app icon, nothing happened, and the Etcher app doesn’t show.
When you run the app from Terminal, you would get the following error:
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The solution
To fix it, you need install FUSE in your Linux distribution as follows:
Install required packages for Ubuntu 22.04 and later.
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt install libfuse2
Install required packages for other distributions:
###For Ubuntu 21.10 and older
sudo apt install fuse libfuse2
sudo modprobe fuse sudo groupadd fuse
user="$(whoami)" sudo usermod -a -G fuse $user
###For openSUSE:
sudo zypper install fuse libfuse2
sudo usermod -a -G trusted whoami
###For CentOS and Fedora
dnf install fuse
Now. open the Etcher app from Terminal:
sudo ./balenaEtcher-*
As you can see, you got another issue GPU process isn’t usable.
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To fix it, you need run Etcher in Terminal with one of the following parameters:
sudo ./balenaEtcher-* --disable-gpu-sandbox
If the above command doesn’t work, let’s trying to execute the below one:
sudo ./balenaEtcher-* --no-sandbox --disable-gpu-sandbox --disable-seccomp-filter-sandbox
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