Making a bootable USB stick requires "impression"

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This page: USB stick making instructions

says to use some program named “impression”. Of course:

$ sudo zypper install impression
Loading repository data...
Warning: Repository 'Update Repository (Non-Oss)' metadata expired since 2024-04-30 04:05:04 PDT.

    Warning: Repository metadata expired: Check if 'autorefresh' is turned on (zypper lr), otherwise
    manually refresh the repository (zypper ref). If this does not solve the issue, it could be that
    you are using a broken mirror or the server has actually discontinued to support the repository.

Reading installed packages...
'impression' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'impression' found.
Resolving package dependencies...
Nothing to do.
...
$ cnf impression
 impression: command not found                           
~/RPM/SuSE

Googling gets me lots of results about peoples’ impressions of openSUSE, but not the program. SO, two requests:

  1. fix the page to tell people how to find the thing when zypper can’t
  2. tell me here how to find it.
    Thank you! :slight_smile:
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flatpak install Impression

or

flatpak install io.gitlab.adhami3310.Impression

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I modified the wiki a little bit to reflect that Impression is only available for Tumbleweed. For Leap you need to use Imagewriter.

@ddemaio did the former changes to the wiki which removed the references to Imagewriter. As Impression is only available for Tumbleweed, the change in the wiki wasn’t thought trough…

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Nitpick tho: “imagewriter” starts with a lower case “i”. We lazy folks use copy/paste a lot, partly to avoid misspellings. :slight_smile: . Anyway, thank you.