WoeUSB-ng

A Linux program to create a Windows USB stick installer from a real Windows DVD or image.

This package contains two programs:

• woeusb: A command-line utility that enables you to create your own bootable Windows installation USB storage device from an existing Windows Installation disc or disk image
• woeusbgui: Graphic version of woeusb

Supported images:

Windows Vista, Windows 7, Window 8.x, Windows 10. All languages and any version (home, pro...) and Windows PE are supported.

Supported bootmodes:

• Legacy/MBR-style/IBM PC compatible bootmode
• Native UEFI booting is supported for Windows 7 and later images (limited to the FAT filesystem as the target)

This project rewrite of original WoeUSB

Installation

Arch

yay woeusb-ng

For other distributions

Install WoeUSB-ng's Build Dependencies

Ubuntu

sudo apt install git p7zip-full python3-pip python3-wxgtk4.0 

Fedora (tested on: Fedora Workstation 33)

sudo dnf install git p7zip p7zip-plugins python3-pip python3-wxpython4

Install WoeUSB-ng

sudo pip3 install WoeUSB-ng

Installation from source code

Install WoeUSB-ng's Build Dependencies

Ubuntu

sudo apt install git p7zip-full python3-pip python3-wxgtk4.0 

Arch

sudo pacman -Suy p7zip python-pip python-wxpython

Fedora (tested on: Fedora Workstation 33)

sudo dnf install git p7zip p7zip-plugins python3-pip python3-wxpython4

Install WoeUSB-ng

git clone https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng.git
cd WoeUSB-ng
sudo pip3 install .

Installation from source code locally or in virtual environment

git clone https://github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB-ng.git
cd WoeUSB-ng
git apply development.patch
sudo pip3 install -e .

Please note that this will not create menu shortcut and you may need to run gui twice as it may want to adjust policy.

Uninstalling

To remove WoeUSB-ng completely run (needed only when using installation from source code):

sudo pip3 uninstall WoeUSB-ng
sudo rm /usr/share/icons/WoeUSB-ng/icon.ico \
    /usr/share/applications/WoeUSB-ng.desktop \
    /usr/local/bin/woeusbgui
sudo rmdir /usr/share/icons/WoeUSB-ng/

License

WoeUSB-ng is distributed under the GPL license.

Help needed

We need somebody with knowledge how to create .deb package (or other packages for other linux distributions). Currently WoeUSB-ng is distributed via PyPi which does not exactly suit ours needs. What will package need to do?

• Move woeusb and woeusbgui scripts to /bin or equivalent set by system
• If needed, edit path do woeusb and woeusbgui in com.github.woeusb.woeusb-ng.policy
• Move com.github.woeusb.woeusb-ng.policy to /usr/share/polkit-1/actions
• Create entry in menu
• Move core.py, gui.py, list_devices.py, utils.py, workaround.py to <python_path>/site-packages
• When uninstalling, remove and revert every change made to user system while installing