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FedoraMediaWriter 5.1.3

Writes Fedora images to portable media files

Category: Utilities
Price: Free
Popularity: Low
Version String: 5.1.3
Release Date: 2024-09-18
Architecture: Intel
Minimum OS: macOS 10.15.0
Vendor Name: fedoraproject
Homepage: docs.fedoraproject.org

Version History 5.1.3

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Description:

FEDORA MEDIA WRITER


Fedora Media Writer is a tool that helps users put Fedora images on
their portable drives such as flash disks.

It is able to automatically download the required image for them and
write them in a dd-like fashion, using either dd itself or some other
way to access the drive directly.

This overwrites the drive’s partition layout though so it also provides
a way to restore a single-partition layout with a FAT32 partition.




Troubleshooting

If you experience any problem with the application, like crashes or
errors when writing to your drives, please open an issue here on Github.

Please don’t forget to attach the FedoraMediaWriter.log file that will
appear in your Documents folder ($HOME/Documents on Linux and Mac,
C:). It contains some non-sensitive information about your system
and the log of all events happening during the runtime.


Building

You can build FMW using the default Qt qmake build system.

Linux

You should specify the target directory using the PREFIX qmake variable.
The default prefix path is /usr/local

It can be done like this:

qmake PREFIX=/usr .

The main binary, mediawriter, will be written to $PREFIX/bin and the
helper binary can be found on the path
$PREFIX/libexec/mediawriter/helper.

Requirements

- udisks2 or storaged
- xz-libs

Windows

Building FMW in Windows is just the matter of running qmake and make.

To create a standalone package, use the windeployqt tool, included in
your Qt installation. You will probably have to include a bunch of not
included DLLs.

Requirements

- xz-libs

macOS

Again, you can just run qmake and make.

To release a standalone package, use macdeployqt, supplied with your Qt
installation.

Requirements

- xz-libs


Translation

If you want to help with translating Fedora Media Writer, please visit
our Zanata project page.

Information about the individual Fedora flavors is retrieved from the
websites and translated as a separate project.


Other information

For details about cryptography, see CRYPTOGRAPHY.md.

Some brief privacy information (regarding User-Agent strings) is in
PRIVACY.md.