Error AUR balena-etcher

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I get the following Error:

paru -S balena-etcher
:: Löse Abhängigkeiten auf…
:: Konflikte berechnen…
:: Interne Konflikte berechnen…

:: Konflikte gefunden:
nodejs-lts-jod: nodejs

:: In Konflikt stehende Pakete müssen manuell bestätigt werden

Repo (2) Alte Version Neue Version Nur Make
extra/electron34 34.2.0-3 Nein
extra/nodejs-lts-jod 22.14.0-2 Nein

Aur (1) Alte Version Neue Version Nur Make
aur/balena-etcher 2:2.0.0-1 Nein

:: Mit Überprüfung fortfahren? [J/n]: j

:: Lade PKGBUILDs herunter…
PKGBUILDs sind aktuell
nichts Neues zu überprüfen
Abhängigkeiten werden aufgelöst …
Nach in Konflikt stehenden Paketen wird gesucht …
:: nodejs-lts-jod-22.14.0-2 and nodejs-23.8.0-4 are in conflict. Remove nodejs? [j/N]
Fehler: Nicht auflösbare Paketkonflikte gefunden
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht vorbereitet werden (In Konflikt stehende Abhängigkeiten)
:: nodejs-lts-jod-22.14.0-2 and nodejs-23.8.0-4 are in conflict

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You would be better off using the package popsicle.

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I prefer KDE’s Image Writer.

It’s in the Arch Extra repo. https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/isoimagewriter/

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Maybe I’m old fashion but dd never failed me yet, I just use whats already there.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dd
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@voauerxxl: Welcome to the forum! :purple_heart:
First: your problem seems to be related to the electron problem, which was mentioned here in the forum during the last days. Please the answers to solve the problem.
Second: I would not use balena-etcher any more:
https://www.heise.de/news/ISO-Schreibprogramm-Tails-warnt-vor-balenaEtcher-10288826.html
Sorry, only a german link. The guys from Tails are warning because of increasing spying of balena-etcher.

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I guess I’m just lazy because I’ve never used dd much.

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Herzlich willkommen!

For what is worth, I had very bad experiences with etcher last attempts using it.
(beside the fact that it calls “home”, or somewhere, without asking anything)

Last try was writing linux mint iso with it.
It is what their wiki recommend using, so I was like, mmmmmèèèèèh, ok, let’s do this.

Ending up being an epic failure, many tries with different keys, ports, systems… failed.

dd did the trick perfectly.

In the end I was really questioning the robustness of a distro advocating it in its wiki as the only way to burn their iso… but well…

So, yeah, many other options that etcher I guess

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I think the “official” distribution of Etcher is via appimage. That’s worked well for me on other distros.

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According to their GitHub, they recommend yay -S balena-etcher.

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I only use etcher on Windows normally but i have used it before on EOS. Now i use popsicle mostly.

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Linux has several BUILT IN Tools that can do the same job and they don’t have near the weight.

There is dd, cp, cat and even tee

Third party apps are just bloat
to learn more about native solutions just follow our wonderful wiki
https://discovery.endeavouros.com/installation/create-install-media-usb-key/2021/03/

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Nah. dd is just boring to use lol I use balena or fedora media writer if I’m not at work. dd is for work stuffs.

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Consider to use a different tool for creating USB sticks. popsicle, rufus, etc.

There are some data privacy concerns with balena-etcher:

https://tails.net/news/rufus/index.en.html

german news article:
https://www.heise.de/news/ISO-Schreibprogramm-Tails-warnt-vor-balenaEtcher-10288826.html

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I tried the install using yay -S balena-etcher and get the same error since i have nodejs installed. Im not removing node to get the LTS version. I’m not sure why they expect you to use the LTS over the current version unless its broken when using the current version.

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I’m just as old fashioned, but prefer cat.

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As someone who has used Debian, Arch and now NixOS, I can tell you from experience that the only ISO/IMG writing software that works flawlessly across all distros is Fedora Media Writer.

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Thanx - I switch to popsicle.

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Thanx - I switch to popsicle.

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You should also be able to download the balenaEtcher-linux-x64 package directly from the balena site. Extract it to a folder and run the balena-etcher binary and run it. I tested it and it worked.

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