Install Batocera From Linux

FireRat666

Because you only give instructions for install from Windows I tried using UNetBootin to write the image to a disk after formatting it to fat32 and that failed after multiple attempts
But when searching for an Alternative to Win32DiskImager i found https://etcher.io/ Which is open source https://github.com/resin-io/etcher
and is very easy to install and use on Windows (7 and later), MacOS (10.9 and later) and Linux (most distros)

I think it would be very helpful to many people if you included instructions for install using this program as I was able to successfully write the image to a disk using this program and it is a very simple program
Thank you, I hope this is the right spot to do this

nadenislamarre

Hi,

from linux, i generally do (see the wiki) :
- sd card
sudo dd if=output/images/recalbox/recalbox.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=40M; sync
- usb key, where X is your usb key, unmounted (and double check that it is not your hard drive)
sudo dd if=output/images/recalbox/recalbox.img of=/dev/sdX bs=40M; sync

However, your suggestion looks very good.
can you prepare the screenshot and the text so that i've just to copy and past it please ?

FireRat666

Installation Guide is a copy of yours with appropriate changes
Download <url="https://etcher.io">Etcher</url> for your OS
Download an image file from the download section
Install and run Etcher
Extract recalbox.img.gz (gz is like zip, ie it's a compressed file)
Warning : some browsers like Opera/Chrome/Safari take the liberty to unzip the file by themself and badly rename them. If the file is more than 1GB, it is already unzipped.
Insert a usb key or a sdcard on your computer
Select the image and the drive in Etcher like on the following screenshot and click on Flash!
<img src="https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/1SBZwE3RK.png">
Once finished, go on your usb key/sdcard and check that it looks like this :
<img src="https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/iO8n5QSqg.png">

Regarding screenshots as I did it for the RPi3 the files after flashing are a little different then the image you currently show

And I did not see the instructions for Linux install on the wiki but thank you it's good to know they were there - edit I see I didn't find them because I didn't think to look in the Development Compiling guide

FireRat666

Is there any more screenshots you need or do you want me to write the instructions differently?

nadenislamarre

install section of the website updated. thanks a lot. sorry for the big delay.