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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Not able to launch mediawriter
From:       Joe Zeff <joe () zeff ! us>
Date:       2017-03-31 7:50:44
Message-ID: b1c78782-2b4d-52cf-010d-0260c3dae23f () zeff ! us
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On 03/31/2017 12:36 AM, Martin Bříza wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 19:11:56 +0200, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
>
>> On 03/30/2017 06:34 AM, Martin Bříza wrote:
>>> first, please don't run mediawriter as root.
>>> Second, this is because it cannot find the Qt Quick Controls. These
>>> should be included in the qt5-qtquickcontrols package, which is a
>>> dependency of mediawriter. Did you modify your installation of one of
>>> these packages?
>>
>> The Fedora documentation says it needs to be run using sudo, which is
>> the same as running it as root.
>
> Uh, can you please point me to where does it say that? It definitely
> shouldn't say that.
>

With pleasure: 
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/25/html/Installation_Guide/sect-preparing-boot-media.html 
  As a matter of fact, the instructions are wrong because they tell you 
to run liveusb-creator, not mediawriter, as you can see by this 
bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1434185
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