I’m trying to run Etcher so I can install Windows 11 on an unused partition on my device. However, if I type sudo ./balena-etcher --no-sandbox, it gives me the following strings of code and opens a blank window:
ballog.txt (10.2 KB)
(I’m trying this route because I haven’t had any luck installing Windows 11 with the official USB stick containing it, by the way. It always says it can’t get everything ready-- either when choosing the partition, or just as it’s about to get to the finishing up stage. I’ve tried installing the ISO on another USB drive, but Popsicle says it doesn’t support Windows ISOs, and the installer says it can’t find any of the drivers when I try to boot from it. Not sure what’s going on there. Ventoy doesn’t boot at all. It just put a little patch of blue with a backwards capital L in the lower right corner of my screen when I tried that.)
If anyone can help me with either of these issues, that would be much appreciated.
With some help, I figured this one out. I’m running Ubuntu Studio with KDE, not Kubuntu, but it would be worth trying. I downloaded the Linux X64 zip file, and extracted it. When I tried to run balena-Etcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher, I got an error message stating that a different file, chrome-sandbox, needed to be owned by root and set with permissions 4755. I did this in the terminal, and then the balena-etcher file ran. I added it as an icon to my desktop, and that works too.
Interesting. What did the command for that look like?
Hi, sorry, I was offline for a couple of days. I had downloaded and extracted the balena etcher Linux zip file into my Downloads folder, but you can download it into wherever you want. . So I opened a terminal and tried running
/home/myusername/Downloads/balenaEtcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher
I immediately got an error message stating that I needed to make sure that root had ownership of the “chrome-sandbox” package, and that it needed permissions 4755. Note: this was NOT the “balena-Etcher” executable package, but some other dependency included in the zip file. So I ran:
sudo chown root /home/myusername/Downloads/balenaEtcher-linux-x64/chrome-sandbox
sudo chmod 4755 /home/myusername/Downloads/balenaEtcher-linux-x64/chrome-sandbox
and then, once again:
/home/myusername/Downloads/balenaEtcher-linux-x64/balena-etcher
And the app popped right up on my desktop. I then added an icon for it on my toolbar, and clicking on it does run the app.