source: xsoft/other/gparted.xml@ ed129d2

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY gparted-download-http
           "&sourceforge-repo;/gparted/gparted-&gparted-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY gparted-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY gparted-md5sum        "ecd66491bb2061c6aa6077cc24823b9e">
  <!ENTITY gparted-size          "2.0 MB">
  <!ENTITY gparted-buildsize     "77 MB (additional 4 MB, building the
                                  optional documentation)">
  <!ENTITY gparted-time          "0.9 SBU">
]>

<sect1 id="gparted" xreflabel="Gparted-&gparted-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="gparted.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Gparted-&gparted-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="gparted">
    <primary sortas="a-Gparted">Gparted</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Gparted</title>

    <para>
      Gparted is the Gnome Partition Editor, a Gtk 2 GUI for other command line
      tools that can create, reorganise or delete disk partitions.
    </para>

    &lfs74_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&gparted-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&gparted-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &gparted-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &gparted-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &gparted-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &gparted-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Gparted Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="gtkmm2"/>,
      <xref linkend="intltool"/> and
      <xref linkend="parted"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <ulink url="&gnome-download-http;/gnome-doc-utils/">
      GNOME Doc Utils</ulink> and
      <xref linkend="rarian"/>
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/gparted"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Gparted</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>Gparted</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr    \
            --disable-doc    \
            --disable-static &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      This package does not come with a testsuite.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
      href="../../xincludes/static-libraries.xml"/>

    <para>
      <option>--disable-doc</option>: This switch disables building of
      the optional documentation. Remove it if you have installed
      <application>GNOME Doc Utils</application>.
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="using">
    <title>Using Gparted</title>

    <para>
      To manipulate file systems Gparted has a run time dependency on various
      file system tools (you only need to install the tools for file systems you
      actually use):
      e2fsprogs (installed as part of LFS),
      <xref linkend="jfsutils"/>,
      <xref linkend="ntfs-3g"/>,
      <xref linkend="reiserfs"/>,
      <xref linkend="xfsprogs"/>,
      <ulink url="https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Btrfs_source_repositories">
        btrfs-progs</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://www.daniel-baumann.ch/software/dosfstools/">dosfstools</ulink>,
      <ulink url="http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/mtools/">mtools</ulink> (required
      to read and write FAT16/32 volume labels and UUIDs),
      <ulink url="ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/hfs/">hfsutils</ulink>,
      hfsprogs,
      <ulink url="http://www.nilfs.org/download/">nilfs-utils</ulink> and
      reiser4progs.
    </para>

    <para>
      Root privileges are required to run Gparted. If you wish to run the
      application from the menu, further applications and configurations are
      necessary. Examples of applications that may be used:
      <ulink url="http://people.debian.org/~kov/gksu">gksu and gksudo</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://launchpad.net/kdesudo">kdesudo</ulink>, or
      <ulink url="https://github.com/tarakbumba/xdg-su">xdg-su</ulink>.
      Another simple solution is the <application>GTK+</application> based
      <application>gnome-ssh-askpass2</application> (does not need
      <application>GNOME</application>) that comes with
      <xref linkend="openssh"/>, under the
      <filename class="directory">contrib</filename> directory in the source.
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          gparted and gpartedbin
        </seg>
        <seg>
          None
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/share/gnome/help/gparted and
          /usr/share/omf/gparted
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="gparted-prog">
        <term><command>gparted</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a shell script which sets up the environment before calling
            <command>gpartedbin</command>.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gparted gparted-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-gparted">gparted</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="gpartedbin">
        <term><command>gpartedbin</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is the Gparted binary.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="gparted gpartedbin">
            <primary sortas="b-gpartedbin">gpartedbin</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>