Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility
sudo apt update && sudo apt install rpi-imager
.Please see our official documentation.
sudo apt install --no-install-recommends build-essential cmake git libgnutls28-dev
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager
Modify appimagecraft.yml:
/opt/Qt/6.7.2/gcc_arm64/
/opt/Qt/6.7.2./gcc_arm64/bin/qmake
Now, use AppImageCraft to build your AppImage:
cd rpi-imager
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${your_Qt6_install_path}/lib
./${your_platform_appimagecraft}.AppImage
Now mark the AppImage as executable, and run it:
chmod +x ./Raspberry_Pi_Imager-*.AppImage
./Raspberry_Pi_Imager-*.AppImage
Get the Qt online installer from: https://www.qt.io/download-open-source During installation, choose Qt 6.7 with Mingw64 64-bit toolchain, CMake and Qt Creator.
For building the installer, get Nullsoft scriptable install system: https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Download
It is assumed you already have a valid code signing certificate, and the Windows 10 Kit (SDK) installed.
Building Raspberry Pi Imager on Windows is best done with the Qt Creator GUI.
C:\Qt\Tools\mingw64
/opt/Qt6/6.7.2/gcc_arm64
The embedded build runs under a minimalistic Linux distribution compiled by buildroot. To build:
cd rpi-imager/embedded
./build.sh
The result will be in the "output" directory. The files can be copied to a FAT32 formatted SD card, and inserted in a Pi for testing. If you would like to build a (signed) netboot image there are tools for that at: https://github.com/raspberrypi/usbboot/tree/master/tools
If the application is started with "--repo [your own URL]" it will use a custom image repository. So can simply create another 'start menu shortcut' to the application with that parameter to use the application with your own images.
In order to understand usage of the application (e.g. uptake of Raspberry Pi Imager versions and which images and operating systems are most popular) when using the default image repository, the URL, operating system name and category (if present) of a selected image are sent along with the running version of Raspberry Pi Imager, your operating system, CPU architecture, locale and Raspberry Pi revision (if applicable) to https://rpi-imager-stats.raspberrypi.com by downloadstatstelemetry.cpp.
This web service is hosted by Heroku and only stores an incrementing counter using a Redis Sorted Set for each URL, operating system name and category per day in the eu-west-1
region and does not associate any personal data with those counts. This allows us to query the number of downloads over time and nothing else.
The last 1,500 requests to the service are logged for one week before expiring as this is the minimum log retention period for Heroku.
On Windows, you can opt out of telemetry by disabling it in the Registry:
reg add "HKCU\Software\Raspberry Pi\Imager" /v telemetry /t REG_DWORD /d 0
On Linux, run rpi-imager --disable-telemetry
or add the following to ~/.config/Raspberry Pi/Imager.conf
:
[General]
telemetry=false
On macOS, disable it by editing the property list for the application:
defaults write org.raspberrypi.Imager.plist telemetry -bool NO
The main code of the Imaging Utility is made available under the terms of the Apache license. See license.txt and files in "src/dependencies" folder for more information about the various open source licenses that apply to the third-party dependencies used such as Qt, libarchive, drivelist, mountutils and libcurl. For the embedded (netboot) build see also "embedded/legal-info" for more information about the extra system software included in that.