I was working in Linux Lite 4.8 trying to upgrade to 6.6 . I downloaded balenaEtcher-linux-x64-2.1.4.zip and listed the files with the unzip -l command. I saw no .Appimage file there. I posted to the product support forum with title “Filename to use to make bootable USB drive?”, including a file listing. I don’t know if the moderator considered it off-topic, or was just too busy, so I’m posting here. I haven’t included the file listing here, since whoever sees this can just look it up on the product support forum (it’s long).
Hello, you should be able to right click on balena-etcher (not the shortcut or link as in your screenshot, but the next one to the left) and select “Run” to launch Etcher.
There is no application installed for “shared library” files.
Do you want to search for an application to open this file? Y/N"
And even when I did say YES the system was not able to find what was needed so I am back to where I started…
Please provide me with an user-friendly solution to this issue as I am not familiar with coding nor with using the command prompt…
The very reason I need to use the Balena Etcher is that my Ubuntu version is outdated (14.04 LTS) and I need to install a recent one formatting the harddrive in the process as I did encrypt it back then but I have lost the password so no updates were possible…
Since Ubuntu 14 was end of life almost seven years ago, it may be too old to run the current version of Etcher. I was able to get a much older version of Etcher running on Ubuntu 14. However I would suggest installing Etcher on a different newer computer/OS and using that to flash your target OS onto a removable drive. Then boot your Ubuntu 14 machine with that drive.
