HOW TO INSTALL GPARTED LINUX PARTITION MANAGER (GPARTED PARTITION EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04
HOW TO INSTALL GPARTED LINUX PARTITION MANAGER (GPARTED PARTITION EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04
Introduction
In this article we are going to learn How to install Gparted Linux partition manager (Gparted Partition Editor) in Ubuntu 16.40. GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor is a open source graphical application used to manage the disk partitions like create partition, merge partition, edit the partition, delete partition, Shrink Partition, move partition and so on. There is Live CD of Gparted is also available. you can use live CD to manage partition in case your system is not entering in to the operation system. Gparted Linux partition manager (Gparted Partition Editor) is available only for Linux and Unix related operating systems but GParted Live CD can be usable in all major operating systems i.e. Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS. It’s written using C++ programming language.
Gparted partition editor was developed by The GParted Team and released under GPLv2 license. Gparted supports almost all file systems i.e. ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, linux swap partition, NTFS, FAT32, FAT16…etc.. Here we are going to install latest version of GParted Linux partition manager in Ubuntu 16.04. For more informatio on GParted Partition Editor you can visit official website Here!
You can Download Gparted Linux Partition Manager (Gparted Partition Editor) for different Linux distributions Here!
Follow the below steps to install Gparted Linux partition manager (Gparted Partition Editor) in Ubuntu 16.40
Before we start the installation of GParted Linux partition manager (GParted Partition Editor) just update the packages and repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update # Update Packages & Repositories
[sudo] password for elinuxbook:
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 kB]
Hit:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease [102 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease [102 kB]
Fetched 306 kB in 3s (85.8 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Also Read :
- BEST USEFUL LINUX DF COMMAND WITH EXAMPLES
- USEFUL LINUX FDISK COMMAND WITH EXAMPLES – A LINUX DISK PARTITION TOOL
After update the packages and repositories let’s go ahead and install GParted Linux partition manager using below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install gparted # Install GParted Partition Editor Package Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following additional packages will be installed: libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 libparted-fs-resize0 Suggested packages: xfsprogs reiserfsprogs reiser4progs jfsutils kpartx dmraid dmsetup gpart libparted-dev The following NEW packages will be installed: gparted libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 libparted-fs-resize0 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 345 not upgraded. Need to get 1,129 kB of archives. After this operation, 6,973 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y ---> Enter "y" to continue the installation Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libgtkmm-2.4-1v5 amd64 1:2.24.4-2 [671 kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 libparted-fs-resize0 amd64 3.2-15 [46.4 kB] Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 gparted amd64 0.25.0-1 [411 kB] Fetched 1,129 kB in 22s (51.1 kB/s) Selecting previously unselected package libgtkmm-2.4-1v5:amd64. (Reading database ... 174198 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../libgtkmm-2.4-1v5_1%3a2.24.4-2_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libgtkmm-2.4-1v5:amd64 (1:2.24.4-2) ... Selecting previously unselected package libparted-fs-resize0:amd64. Preparing to unpack .../libparted-fs-resize0_3.2-15_amd64.deb ... Unpacking libparted-fs-resize0:amd64 (3.2-15) ... Selecting previously unselected package gparted. Preparing to unpack .../gparted_0.25.0-1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking gparted (0.25.0-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ... Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ... Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index... Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ... Setting up libgtkmm-2.4-1v5:amd64 (1:2.24.4-2) ... Setting up libparted-fs-resize0:amd64 (3.2-15) ... Setting up gparted (0.25.0-1) ... Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu5) ...
We have successfully installed the GParted Partition Editor successfully. to confirm the same refer the below command.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l gparted # Confirm installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Architecture Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii gparted 0.25.0-1 amd64 GNOME partition editor
To open the Gparted Linux partition manager application just type gparted on the shell prompt. Refer the command below.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo gparted # Open the Gparted Linux Partition Manager
Snap : 1
GPARTED SNAP – 1
Snap : 2
GPARTED SNAP – 2
Also Read :
Snap : 3
GPARTED SNAP – 3
Snap : 4
GPARTED SNAP – 4
GParted application Version :
GPARTED APPLICATION VERSION
You can also open the Gparted application graphically using application search box. Refer the snapshot below.
OPEN GPARTED LINUX PARTITION MANAGER (GPARTED PARTITION EDITOR) GRAPHICALLY
You can use the below command to uninstall the application.
elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r gparted # Uninstall the Application
(Reading database ... 174318 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing gparted (0.25.0-1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
This is how we can install GParted Linux partition Manager (GParted Partition Editor) in Ubuntu 16.04. If you found this article useful then Like Us, Share Us, Subscribe our Newsletter OR if you have something to say then feel free to comment on the comment box below.
