# Need help installing etcher on Parrot linux

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**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 4:05am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/need-help-installing-etcher-on-parrot-linux/122436 "2020-05-31T04:05:56Z")\
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If you want to run the appimage you will need to first make it executable.  
chmod +x etcher.appimage

Secondly, the launcher fails with this error.

[16072:0715/123308.833525:FATAL:setuid\_sandbox\_host.cc(158)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I’m aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount\_etcherF4zgMU/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.  
/tmp/.mount\_etcherF4zgMU/balena-etcher-electron: line 10: 16072 Trace/breakpoint trap “{script\_dir}"/balena-etcher-electron.bin "@”

I ran the appimage with sudo and it launched fine for me.

I renamed the file etcher.AppImage, so this would be my terminal command from the directory with the AppImage in it.

sudo ./etcher.AppImage

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