Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

Etcher

Flash OS images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

Etcher is a powerful OS image flasher built with web technologies to ensure flashing an SDCard or USB drive is a pleasant and safe experience. It protects you from accidentally writing to your hard-drives, ensures every byte of data was written correctly and much more. It can also flash directly Raspberry Pi devices that support the usbboot protocol

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Supported Operating Systems

• Linux (most distros)
• macOS 10.10 (Yosemite) and later
• Microsoft Windows 7 and later

Note that Etcher will run on any platform officially supported by Electron. Read more in their documentation.

Installers

Refer to the downloads page for the latest pre-made installers for all supported operating systems.

Debian and Ubuntu based Package Repository (GNU/Linux x86/x64)

1. Add Etcher debian repository:

   echo "deb https://deb.etcher.io stable etcher" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
   

2. Trust Bintray.com’s GPG key:

   sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkps://keyserver.ubuntu.com:443 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61
   

3. Update and install:

   sudo apt-get update
   sudo apt-get install balena-etcher-electron
   

Uninstall

sudo apt-get remove balena-etcher-electron
sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/balena-etcher.list
sudo apt-get update

OpenSUSE LEAP & Tumbleweed install

sudo zypper ar https://balena.io/etcher/static/etcher-rpm.repo
sudo zypper ref
sudo zypper in balena-etcher-electron

Uninstall

sudo zypper rm balena-etcher-electron

Redhat (RHEL) and Fedora based Package Repository (GNU/Linux x86/x64)

1. Add Etcher rpm repository:

   sudo wget https://balena.io/etcher/static/etcher-rpm.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/etcher-rpm.repo
   

2. Update and install:

   sudo yum install -y balena-etcher-electron
   

   or

   sudo dnf install -y balena-etcher-electron
   

Uninstall

sudo yum remove -y balena-etcher-electron
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/etcher-rpm.repo
sudo yum clean all
sudo yum makecache fast

or

sudo dnf remove -y balena-etcher-electron
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/etcher-rpm.repo
sudo dnf clean all
sudo dnf makecache

Solus (GNU/Linux x64)

sudo eopkg it etcher

Uninstall

sudo eopkg rm etcher

Arch Linux / Manjaro (GNU/Linux x64)

Etcher is offered through the Arch User Repository and can be installed on both Manjaro and Arch systems. You can compile it from the source code in this repository using balena-etcher. The following example uses a common AUR helper to install the latest release:

yay -S balena-etcher

Uninstall

yay -R balena-etcher

Brew Cask (macOS)

Note that the Etcher Cask has to be updated manually to point to new versions, so it might not refer to the latest version immediately after an Etcher release.

brew cask install balenaetcher

Uninstall

brew cask uninstall balenaetcher

Chocolatey (Windows)

This package is maintained by @majkinetor, and is kept up to date automatically.

choco install etcher

Uninstall

choco uninstall etcher

Support

If you’re having any problem, please raise an issue on GitHub and the balena.io team will be happy to help.

License

Etcher is free software, and may be redistributed under the terms specified in the license.