Solved Trying to run Balena etcher to install elementary os 8 -- won't open

[Straitsfan]

Hello. I want to upgrade to elementary os 8, and to do that I need to download balena etcher. I can download and extract the file, but when I click on the balena etcher file to run it, nothing happens. Can anyone help out and let me know if I'm doing anything wrong? Has anyone ever had any experience with this problem?

 

[GatorsFan]

There is a known bug - grab the AppImage here https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/tag/v1.18.11
It is an older version 1.18.11 but works at least on my machine - also make sure it is executable, right click the AppImage select Properties click on the Permissions tab and put a check mark in "Allow this file to run as a program"

 

[Straitsfan]

Thank you. I found the older version and installed EOS.

 

[wizardfromoz]

@Straitsfan , if this is Solved now, you can mark it as same.

...by going to your first post, and do as follows

Near bottom left of the post click Edit - (No Prefix) - Solved

Cheers

Wizard

 

[Straitsfan]

Um...another problem with this. I installed EOS 8 but it's awful. Not what I thought it would be. I want to switch to Ubuntu 24.04, but EOS doesn't seem to be letting me do anything with regard to etcher. When I clicked on the link above, the APPIMage for 1.18.11, nothing happens -- I've set the permissions to executable, but it doesn't run. It just sits there in my downloads folder. I can't seem to do anything with this new OS.

Any suggestions? When I right click and choose "Open with" I get the chocies "File Roller" (Still don't know what that does) or other apps that have nothing to do with this (Libre Office, App Center, etc).

I can't even find a download anywhere for Jolnir, which worked fine with the etcher version you linked to. I'm at a complete loss. The one application, MuseScore, that I want to use, doesn't work well at all, it seems, with this new EOS update.

Please help any way anyone is able. Are there any other versions of etcher that I can try? If I can get that then I can simply flash the Ubuntu ISO to a drive and install it.

 

[KGIII]

I've set the permissions to executable, but it doesn't run. It just sits there in my downloads folder. I can't seem to do anything with this new OS.

In a terminal, make sure you're in the correct directory (probably cd ~/Downloads) run the ./<file_name>.appimage to see if it throws errors.

If it's the only AppImage in the directory, you can just run ./*.appimage rather than typing out the full name of the file.

 

[Straitsfan]

In a terminal, make sure you're in the correct directory (probably cd ~/Downloads) run the ./<file_name>.appimage to see if it throws errors.

If it's the only AppImage in the directory, you can just run ./*.appimage rather than typing out the full name of the file.

Okay, did that. Here is the result:

./MuseScore-Studio-4.4.4.243461245-x86_64.AppImage
dlopen(): error loading libfuse.so.2

AppImages require FUSE to run.
You might still be able to extract the contents of this AppImage
if you run it with the --appimage-extract option.
See https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/wiki/FUSE
for more information

So I guess that's an error message.

Should I try the same thing with the executable file in the .zip download?

Update: just downloaded libfuse.so.2 and it worked -- thank you so much. Can't say how grateful I am. Should I try the same thing with Balena Etcher, or should I do something different?

 

[GatorsFan]

AppImages require FUSE to run

Make sure libfuse2 and libfuse3-3 are installed

sudo apt install libfuse2 libfuse3-3

"File Roller" is the extraction/compression tool for Nemo file manager - like Gnome Archive Manager or WinZip for Windows

 

[Condobloke]

1. Download the latest Etcher .deb file from https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/
2. cd to wherever you downloaded the file to (e.g. cd ~/Downloads/)
3. sudo apt install ./the_filename_you_just_downloaded.deb should then work

 

[KGIII]

Update: just downloaded libfuse.so.2 and it worked -- thank you so much.

I was pretty sure that that was the problem and that it'd spit out the solution, more or less.

Glad you got it sorted. You can mark this thread as solved by editing your first post and changing the drop-down section on the left. I suppose I can mark it solved for you, if you have trouble finding that.

 

[Straitsfan]

Just got Ubuntu Installed and boy it's nice so far. Was even able to download the same verison of MuseScore that my Macs use in case I have to go back to that one and can use both machines now.

It shall so be marked as solved. Once again thank you all for your input. I saved a trip to my local computer service.

1. Download the latest Etcher .deb file from https://github.com/balena-io/etcher/releases/
2. cd to wherever you downloaded the file to (e.g. cd ~/Downloads/)
3. sudo apt install ./the_filename_you_just_downloaded.deb should then work

Was able to open it and flash it -- and now I've got Ubuntu installed.

 

[Condobloke]

 

[KGIII]

As it had been a bit, I went ahead and marked it solved for OP. It only takes a second.