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Topic: gparted-0.3.3 installation error: Requires libparted >= 1.7.1

I met this error when I run "./configure"

But I've already downloaded parted-1.8.8 and installed it. In my /lib, there are
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.8
/lib/libparted-1.8.so.8.0.0
/lib/libparted.a
/lib/libparted.la
/lib/libparted.so
/lib/pkgconfig/libparted.pc

so what's wrong? how do I solve the problem?

Thank you very much!

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2 Reply by class413

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Re: gparted-0.3.3 installation error: Requires libparted >= 1.7.1

Unfortunately, the maintainer of the software is "out of business" at this time, so he can't give any solution...

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Re: gparted-0.3.3 installation error: Requires libparted >= 1.7.1

Thanks a lot. I used the gparted on rescue CD I burned before to partition an external harddrive.
But this requires  me to reboot my computer from the CD. I wanted to install gparted so that if I want to
use it, I do not have to reboot the computer.

Anyway, it's bad that the maintainer is "out of business".

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Re: gparted-0.3.3 installation error: Requires libparted >= 1.7.1

Please, take in account that you can't resize the partitions of the working file system with the installed version, because they need to be unmounted. You have to use the liveCD instead (that doesn't mount any partition).

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5 Reply by gedakc (edited by gedakc 2007-12-01 04:07:35)

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Re: gparted-0.3.3 installation error: Requires libparted >= 1.7.1

Hello ycai,

I ran into a similar problem when trying to run ./configure to build gparted-0.3.3.

The error in my case appears to have been misleading because I had the necessary library version installed in /lib/libparted-1.7.so.1 (libparted 1.7.1) and also had compiled and installed /usr/local/lib/libparted-1.8.so.8.0.0 (libparted 1.8.8).

The problem turned out to be that I was missing the required development libraries.

On Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) I installed the required development libraries with:

sudo aptitude install uuid-dev libparted-dev
sudo aptitude install gnome-common
     NOTE:  This installed the following:
  autoconf automake autotools-dev gettext intltool libltdl3-dev libtool m4
sudo aptitude install libgtkmm-2.4-dev
     NOTE:  this installed many other dependencies including:
  libatk1.0-dev libcairo2-dev libcairomm-1.0-dev libexpat1-dev
  libfontconfig1-dev libglib2.0-dev libglibmm-2.4-dev libgtk2.0-dev
  libice-dev libpango1.0-dev libpng12-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libsm-dev
  libx11-dev libxau-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxdamage-dev
  libxdmcp-dev libxext-dev libxfixes-dev libxft-dev libxi-dev
  libxinerama-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev x11proto-composite-dev
  x11proto-core-dev x11proto-damage-dev x11proto-fixes-dev
  x11proto-input-dev x11proto-kb-dev x11proto-randr-dev x11proto-render-dev
  x11proto-xext-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev xtrans-dev

Please note that prior to even trying to build gparted, I had installed the base compilation utilities with:
sudo aptitude install build-essential
     NOTE:  I had run this awhile ago and I believe it installed:
  dpkg-dev g++ g++-4.1 libstdc++6-4.1-dev patch

Hope that helps you with the problem you encountered.

Cheers,
gedakc

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Re: gparted-0.3.3 installation error: Requires libparted >= 1.7.1

I found in the changelog (from "news" link in the main gparted site) that there were major problems between gparted and parted-1.8.x, so versions went back to parted-1.7.1!

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