Etcher will not run [SOLVED]

[Sparky]

I downloaded the latest file and I extracted it to documents (also tried downloads). It contains an appimage but it simply wont run. I searched the forum found dome pieces of information but non that directly assesses this situation.

[dolphin_oracle]

the appimage is very like not executable

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chmod a+x NAME_OF_APPIMAGE

[Sparky]

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$ chmod a+x balenaetcher-1.5.71-x64.AppImage

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chmod: cannot access 'balenaetcher-1.5.71-x64.AppImage': No such file or directory

both located in downloads

[dolphin_oracle]

try sudo

[old_guy]

I have older version balena-etcher-electron-1.5.56-linux-x64.zip that works OK.
Downloaded new version balena-etcher-electron-1.5.71-linux-x64.zip, I unzip it check permissions -rwxr-xr-x, and ran from terminal (after renaming - for ease of typing):

┌─[earl@new]─[06:01:35 pm]───────────────────────────[/mnt/data2/App/New Folder]
└─> ./Etcher
[13163:0114/180149.516040:FATAL:setuid_sandbox_host.cc(157)] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /tmp/.mount_Etcher10Eucy/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
/tmp/.mount_Etcher10Eucy/balena-etcher-electron: line 6: 13163 Trace/breakpoint trap "${BASH_SOURCE%/*}"/balena-etcher-electron.bin "$@"

[Sparky]

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sudo balenaetcher-1.5.71-x64.AppImage
sudo: balenaetcher-1.5.71-x64.AppImage: command not found

[fehlix]

Re appimage not run due to sandbox issues see here three ways to make it run:
viewtopic.php?p=549072#p549072

[old_guy]

Installing liquorix kernel worked for me.

[napsix65]

In Linux MX you do not need Balena Etcher, for that you have the tools of MX Linux and they work very well to create live usb from other ISO images

[Head_on_a_Stick]

There is a .deb for it, but the download link is broken. Corrected: https://dl.bintray.com/etcher/debian/et ... _amd64.deb

Looks like it's installable in my Debian buster box (but I'm not trying it for real). Anyway, I agree with napsix65, it seems to be entirely superfluous.