USB Image Writer and Stick Formater not opening!

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I'm on Zorin OS 18 Core.

I installed USB Image Writer and USB Stick Formater from Zorin Software manager.

But neither software is opening or working for some reason. The system is showing that they installed fine. Has anyone had that same issue?

Best regards
Asto

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I believe... that the "USB Image Writer" in Software store is MintStick
Did you install them as Flatpak or from Zorin OS source?
(Source is shown in the upper right side)

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I installed from Zorin OS source :slightly_smiling_face:

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I installed it from source, then launched it from the terminal:

mintstick                                                                                      
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mintstick/mintstick.py", line 3, in <module>
    from unidecode import unidecode
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'unidecode'

Failed to launch....
Given the above, I ran:

sudo apt install python3-unidecode

Now, it launches without errors. Please install using the command above to clear up your error.

It appears that as pulled from the Zorin Repository, it is missing declaring a dependency on python3-unidecode, @AZorin

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Super. This one dependecy should be added to Zoryn software source. Then the Mint Image Writer and Stick Formater works as it Should. Thank You for Your help Aravisian.

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Glad you were able to get help in resolving an issue that shouldn't have been one in the first place had proper Q&A been done. Your situation reminds me of my own experience in a similar vein. Couldn't uninstall certain applications from the Software Manager. Had to uninstall them via the terminal. Not ideal (I mean, for me, it wasn't hard, but imagine what it'd be like for new users going "what the ... "). I still haven't had a chance to sit down with my spare laptop and install Zorin OS 18 on it to document all the bugs I see, but I will eventually. I encourage you to document all bugs you see, and make them known in the "Feedback" subforum. Good luck.

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Thanks for the heads up @Aravisian!

We just published an update to the mintstick APT package (which provides the "USB Image Writer" and "USB Stick Formater" apps) in our repositories around 3 hours ago. It now pulls in python3-unidecode as a dependency to make sure the app works as expected.

To give a bit of background, mintstick is not a package we pre-install in Zorin OS. However, it was originally published in the Ubuntu repositories (which are used in Zorin OS by default), originating from the upstream Debian repositories. As a result, it appears that either the Ubuntu or Debian package maintainers accidentally omitted python3-unidecode as a dependency in the package's debian/control file.
We've since re-packaged mintstick into our own PPA in order to specify this dependency.

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