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#1 2016-02-15 12:08:32

slst3
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PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

Hi Guys, this is my first post in this thread please bare me and correct for the future. So I want rufus in arch linux.
As somebody may not know rufus is a great piece of software to make bootable usb from iso.

I found the git link posted in the official site https://rufus.akeo.ie/
https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

Can anyone help or make this package working for arch linux???

Thank you in advance

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#2 2016-02-15 13:05:03

x33a
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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

@slst3, are you sure it runs on Linux?

The official FAQs indicate otherwise:

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/wiki/F … e_other_OS

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#3 2016-02-15 13:19:30

slst3
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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

@x33a sorry i missed that part... but in the last two lines he mentioned

"Then again, Rufus is Free Software, so if anybody wants to try to port it to another platform, they have everything they need to do so!"

By means of that can we make it for work linux???? Sorry i'm completely newbie.

As I m trying to build in my pc but dont know if it works.

getting below error

[slst@SLST-arch src]$ makepkg -s
==> Making package: rufus 2.7-1 (Mon Feb 15 18:40:59 IST 2016)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found v2.7.zip
==> Validating source files with md5sums...
    v2.7.zip ... Passed
==> Extracting sources...
  -> Extracting v2.7.zip with bsdtar
==> Removing existing $pkgdir/ directory...
==> Starting build()...
/home/slst/rufus/src/PKGBUILD: line 25: ./configure: Permission denied
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
    Aborting...

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#4 2016-02-15 13:20:47

slst3
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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

or is there any similar software in arch linux from which we can make windows/linux iso to usb with all the features in the RUFUS.

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#5 2016-02-15 13:49:42

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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

slst3 wrote:

"Then again, Rufus is Free Software, so if anybody wants to try to port it to another platform, they have everything they need to do so!"

This means you can use the source code and modify it to work on linux. But I think it's not a trivial task.

rufus wiki wrote:

Rufus was designed to work very closely with the Windows APIs, so porting it to another OS would take a lot of effort.


Have you tried Unetbootin already? It's in the [community] repo.

Last edited by michis (2016-02-15 13:55:57)

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#6 2016-02-15 14:07:10

slst3
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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

Yes i have tried it was not working for me. I have also tried tuxboot and multibootusb but none of them working.

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#7 2016-02-15 14:19:25

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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

What does "not working" mean?  Some of those (Unetbootin at least) are known to not be able to make bootable arch isos - but I'm not sure rufus can either.


"UNIX is simple and coherent..." - Dennis Ritchie, "GNU's Not UNIX" -  Richard Stallman

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#8 2016-02-15 15:09:58

slst3
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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

It was not getting boot with most linux distro as well with Windows iso as well. And it doesn't have format feature.

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#9 2016-02-15 15:39:44

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Re: PKGBUILD Request: Rufus

Rufus is very Windows specific. Porting would probably mean rewriting most of the code. You need to learn how dd works and how images work. Start by researching how to mount and/or extract an ISO image, then learn how to work with the container files in there. Make yourself familiar with boot loaders. I do not see a tool as practical as rufus to appear on Linux any time soon.

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