How To Install WoeUSB on Fedora 34

WoeUSB is Windows USB installation media creator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install WoeUSB on Fedora 34.

What is WoeUSB

A utility that enables you to create your own bootable Windows installation USB storage device from an existing Windows Installation disc or disk image.

We can use yum or dnf to install WoeUSB on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install WoeUSB.

Install WoeUSB on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install WoeUSB using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install WoeUSB

Install WoeUSB on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install WoeUSB using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install WoeUSB

How To Uninstall WoeUSB on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the WoeUSB package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove WoeUSB

WoeUSB Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/woeusb
/usr/bin/woeusbgui
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7c/111cc9629c08b07b340416521ab84d09035922
/usr/share/applications/woeusbgui.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/woeusbgui-icon.png
/usr/share/licenses/WoeUSB
/usr/share/licenses/WoeUSB/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/woeusb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/woeusbgui.1.gz
/usr/share/woeusb
/usr/share/woeusb/data
/usr/share/woeusb/data/c501-logo.png
/usr/share/woeusb/data/icon.png
/usr/share/woeusb/data/listDvdDrive
/usr/share/woeusb/data/listUsb
/usr/share/woeusb/data/woeusb-logo.png
/usr/share/woeusb/locale
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/fr
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/woeusb.mo
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/wxstd.mo
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/zh_TW
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES
/usr/share/woeusb/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/woeusb.mo

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install WoeUSB on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.