How to Install Winusb on Ubuntu 16.04

    WinUSB is simple, open source graphical tool to create Windows installer bootable USB disks using ISO images, or real CD/DVD installer disks in Ubuntu and it’s derivatives. Using WinUSB, we can create startup disks for Windows

WinUSB contains two programs:

•     WinUSB-gui: a graphical interface which is very easy to use.
•     Winusb: the command line tool

Installation instructions:

Open terminal and insert command line...

•  Install the dependencies

$ sudo apt-get install gcc build-essential libwxbase3.0-dev libwxgtk3.0-dev.

•  Download the tar package and untar it

$ wget ftp://ftp.ru.debian.org/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles/winusb-1.0.11.tar.gz $ tar zxf winusb-1.0.11.tar.gz

•  Change directory to the src folder and run following commands

$ cd winusb*/src $ sed -i -- 's#wxStandardPaths().GetInstallPrefix()#wxStandardPaths::Get().GetInstallPrefix()#g' findFile.cpp $ sed -i -- 's#wxStandardPaths().GetDataDir()#wxStandardPaths::Get().GetDataDir()#g' findFile.cpp

•  Run the following commands to compile the package and then remove the downloaded installer

$ cd .. $ ./configure $ make $ sudo make install $ cd .. $ rm -rf winusb-1.0.11

• To launch winusb, simply run