Bug 1409148 - Are we using liveusb-creator or Fedora Media Writer?
Summary: Are we using liveusb-creator or Fedora Media Writer?
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Retired
Component: install-guide
Version: devel
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jaromir Hradilek
QA Contact: Fedora Docs QA
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-12-29 22:30 UTC by Patrick Uiterwijk
Modified: 2020-09-20 01:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-09-20 01:01:19 UTC
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Description Patrick Uiterwijk 2016-12-29 22:30:59 UTC
In Fedora 25 Install guide (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/sect-preparing-boot-media.html):

On Fedora 24 or later, you can download Fedora Image Writer with the command:
$ sudo dnf install liveusb-creator
You can call Fedora Media Writer by issuing the command:
$ sudo liveusb-creator

While Media Writer provides liveusb-creator, we might want to provide "dnf install mediawriter".
However, that is just a small annoyance, the big painpoint is with "sudo liveusb-creator", which is NOT a binary provided by mediawriter.
Which means one has to manually figure out they are supposed to run "sudo mediawriter".

Also, do we really want to suggest this method of starting and running?
First off, I think GNOME software might have it listed, so mentioning that as the primary method might be more user-friendly?

Second, please do not teach people to just randomly slap "sudo" in front of commands. As far as I know, mediawriter can be started as normal user perfectly fine, and it'll ask for permissions as soon as they are needed.


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