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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• 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.

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

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:https://keyserver.ubuntu.com:443 --recv-keys 379CE192D401AB61

3. Update and install:

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

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

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

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

sudo eopkg it etcher

sudo eopkg rm etcher

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

brew cask uninstall balenaetcher

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

choco install etcher

choco uninstall etcher

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

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