Popsicle is a free and open source USB ISO file writer application for Linux. Using Popsicle, you can write image file (ISO/IMG) to multiple USB devices all at once. It is written in Rust and released under MIT License. It comes with USB 3 and USB 3 devices and USB hubs support, Verify iso SHA256/MD5 checksum and more.
How to Install Popsicle on Ubuntu Linux
Download Popsicle in .AppImage file format from the above download link and save it on your Downloads folder. Open the terminal app (ctrl+alt+t) and run below commands one by one.
Note: Here “Popsicle_USB_Flasher-1.3.1-x86_64.AppImage” is the downloaded file name. You can change below commands based on your downloaded file .
cd Downloads
sudo chmod +x ~ Popsicle_USB_Flasher-1.3.1-x86_64.AppImage
./Popsicle_USB_Flasher-1.3.1-x86_64.AppImage
Install Popsicle via Flatpak:
First install flatpak and flathub and restart your system after the installation. Follow below link for installation instructions.
Open the terminal and run below Popsicle flatpak install command.
flatpak install flathub com.system76.Popsicle
You can start Popsicle using this command.
flatpak run com.system76.Popsicle
And uninstall Popsicle using this command.
sudo flatpak uninstall com.system76.Popsicle
That’s it.
