Etcher image writer

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Etcher image writer

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https://etcher.io/

Etcher is cross-platform, and ready to use without installation as a zip file for 32 & 64-bit linux systems.

Unzip Etcher, and click on it. The GUI will launch.

If you prefer to have it installed, as a feature of your Dog-based OS :

First, you must be sure to have apt-transport-https installed.

Then manually add in your source file (etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list) :

deb https://dl.bintray.com/resin-io/debian stable etcher

Save file.

Then add this repository key in terminal :

$sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://pgp.mit.edu:80 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61

Now, source file needs to be updated with :

apt update ($sudo apt update for non-root users).

Then you are ready to install etcher with :

apt install etcher-electron (or $sudo apt install etcher-electron for non-root users)

It takes about 70mb of space on your save file.

As a sidenote :
If you want to do an update and an upgrade, you can do both at the same
time :
apt update && apt -y upgrade (-y means yes you want to upgrade, otherwise you get a prompt).

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