Etcher Ubuntu installation issues

balenaEtcher
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I have given up!

I downloaded the 64 bit Etcher zip on Ubuntu. I extracted the files. I made sure the installer was exicutable. But there it stopped! Whatever I tried it just wouldn’t install.

I looked for a 64bit app image but I couldn’t locate an App image I was confident in.

Finally I just used Disk Creator - which has been so straightforward and reliable.

I’m willing to accept it’s me! I want to go back to living Etcher but until i can install it without effort it’s just not something I will entertain.

I find lots of threads on this with varying success - is there a plan to remedy these issues and return to a reliable installation option?

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I had exactly the same issue. There are NO instructions and no apparent way to install Etcher on Linux from the zip file.

You and I seem to be the only people who have ever had this problem.

I thought I would try another way, and looked at installing the debian package off github.
I have a Linux x86-64 arch machine.

What I found was the only linux uunstall package for x86-64 is for red hat systems. The Debian one is amd64.

So there are no linux install packages either.

Does anyone have any idea of how an idiot (me) with only 40 years IT development experience can actually install Etcher?