====== Using Balena Etcher ======

Balena Etcher, is an Open Source, user friendly and cross platform software used to flash USB disks with disk images in order to make them bootable. You can download it [[https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/|here]]. 
For Debian based distributions (like Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Debian), download the .deb file, and the checksum file for Linux: (this is an example for the version v2.1.0, change the filenames accordingly if needed):

<code>
wget https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v2.1.0/balena-etcher_2.1.0_amd64.deb
wget https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/download/v2.1.0/SHA256SUMS.Linux.x64.txt
</code>

Then you can check that the checksum match. The output of this command:

<code>
sha256sum balena-etcher_2.1.0_amd64.deb
</code>

should be contained in the output of this one:

<code>
cat SHA256SUMS.Linux.x64.txt
</code>

Now that you have some level of confidence that you are dealing with a genuine file, you can install it:

<code>
sudo apt install ./balena-etcher_2.1.0_amd64.deb
</code>

Then launch it:

<code>
balena-etcher
</code>

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(in the two following screenshot it is an example with Tails)
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