Fedora Media Writer is a regular Windows application, you don't need any special tools or libraries to be able to run it on your computer.
The application has been developed for and tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11. Also Qt 6.4 is supported only on Windows 10 and 11.
You need to have about 200MB of free memory (RAM) available. It will take about 70MB of space on your drive.
Download the .exe installer from the Releases section of this page or getfedora.org, then open it.
The application download from both mentioned sources should be signed. It should also not triggered any system warning screens.
There are several issues or things that are known to need to be improved in the future:
- The GUI part of the application has to run as administrator - it does not request permission right before writing.
You can build Fedora Media Writer yourself. It has just a few dependencies and building it is a matter of just running two commands.
Qt6(qtbase,qtdeclarative,qtsvgandqtquickcontrols2)
You can use Qt Creator to build and work with the application. If not using that, the process is basically just these two commands you need to run inside the Fedora Media Writer source code directory:
cmake
make
There is also the build.sh script included that I use for building a the installer for distribution on this site. It should do everything automatically if you're in Fedora. There are instructions on how to use it inside at the top of the file
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