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Used for preparing a LiveUSB for Linux distributions' .ISO files. Instead of using a CD or DVD, this lets one use a USB stick.

2019-02-22 - 661 on Windows 10
2017-09-25 - 655 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386
2015-05-14 - (version not recorded) on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
2014-04-25 - 603 on Windows 8.1, with Lubuntu 14.04 i386.
- Does not seem to make a bootable USB stick.
2014-04-24 - 585 on Windows 8.1, with Lubuntu 14.04 i386.
- Does not seem to make a bootable USB stick.
2011-11-17 - 5.63 on (distribution not recorded)
2011-08-11 - 5.49 on Unity Linux (version not recorded)

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2015-05-14 - (version not recorded) ∞

For reasons unknown to me, the everyday Lubuntu 14.04 install I have been using cannot run the Linux version. It complains about a library which is missing which I do actually have. A symlink would have probably solved this, but what I had been doing was to
- boot from a (32bit!) liveUSB
- \sudo \apt-get install p7zip-full
- running it, etc

Cannot specify an ISO directly from the commandline.
Does not suggest the directory it's being run from as the location to begin from when browsing for an ISO file.
- It will do this if you browse to it once. I don't know how it retains this knowledge.
Does not have a facility to format a drive.
- Must manually delete files, which is time consuming. It's much faster to reformat the drive.
Cannot abort the install process if it finds a file it wishes to overwrite.

2011-08-11 - 5.49 ∞

I used this extensively, during my 2011-08-12 Linux testing nightmare.

A note from CrunchBang:

./unetbootin-linux-549: error while loading shared libraries: libgthread-2.0.so.
0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

\sudo \apt-get install ia32-libs-gtk

(no notes were recorded)

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