Please help me to install winusb on Xenial Xerus [duplicate]

Solution 1:

Indeed techniques for installing WinUSB on older versions of Ubuntu fail on Xenial:

Ask Ubuntu: Can't install WinUSB on Ubuntu 15.10

It may then be worth your while to try a forked build of WinUSB which installs and runs quite nicely on Xenial Xerus. To install and run this without errors you will first need to install gksu:

sudo apt-get install gksu

Then install WinUSB from this PPA (Note that this is not the developer's PPA, this is a PPA from the WebUpd8 team and carries several other non-related packages):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt update
sudo apt install winusb

A screenshot from my Xenial system following successful installation:

References:

• Make A Bootable Windows 10 USB Install Stick On Linux With WinUSB Fork

Solution 2:

1. If you havent, install "synaptic package manager" (from ubuntu store/ apps)

Open it and search for

libwxbase3.0-dev right click and "mark for installation"

search for libwxgtk3.0-dev right click and "mark for installation"

Now install by pushing the "apply" button on top

2. Now go to terminal and add the following

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

then do:

sudo apt update

then install:

sudo apt install winusb

For more info on this repo. see: http://www.webupd8.org/2016/06/make-bootable-windows-10-usb-install.html

IMPORTANT NOTE: The developer stated that the graphic-interface (GUI) for winusb is having a bug, which "may" cause to format a wrong disk

Hence it is advised to use terminal/ command line

which is:

sudo winusb --format /path/to/windows.iso device

for example:

sudo winusb --format /home/UserMe/Downloads/win10.iso /dev/sdc

"sdc" here is your device, this may change, easiest way is to open Winusb from apps (gui) and it would display this, SEE in the following example you see our device is /dev/sdb

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Solution 3:

You need to get the following packages from http://packages.ubuntu.com search for the 15.10 packages and download them for your architecture:

libwxbase2.8-0
libwxgtk2.8-0
wx2.8-headers

Then you install them with dpkg -i <package name>. If you get error messages about dependencies for one package then remove it with dpkg -r <package name> and install the dependency first then the package again.

Solution 4:

Since the time of writing the accepted answer, the fork of WinUSB that works with Xenial has been renamed to woeusb.

So to install it in Xenial, run

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install woeusb

And then use command-line interface with woeusb command. Arguments have changed as well:

woeusb --device win7_amd64.iso /dev/sdX