Help Required for Gparted

osama.mansoor

 

I am new in linux and stuck in a situation , I have Oracle Unbreakable Linux 6.5.I am trying to install & configure gparted on one of my linux machine to re-size disk its not working i just stuck at end of steps , i take help from below site.

http://ask.xmodulo.com/install-gparted-linux.html

I already installed by "yum install" command also full fill all required pre-requites like set up EPEL repository, but issue comes when i try to launch Gparted which mention in last of below link

[root@starwind gparted]# ls
AUTHORS     compose       COPYING-DOCS  gnome-doc-utils.make    gparted.desktop.in.in  HACKING  m4           po      testbuild.sh
autogen.sh  configure.ac  data          gparted                 gparted.doap           help     Makefile.am  README
ChangeLog   COPYING       doc           gparted.appdata.xml.in  gparted.in             include  NEWS         src
[root@starwind gparted]# ./autogen.sh
/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
checking for autoconf >= 2.53...
  testing autoconf2.50... not found.
  testing autoconf... found 2.63
checking for automake >= 1.9...
  testing automake-1.11... found 1.11.1
checking for libtool >= 1.4.3...
  testing libtoolize... not found.
***Error***: You must have libtool >= 1.4.3 installed
  to build gparted.  Download the appropriate package for
  from your distribution or get the source tarball at
    http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.4.3.tar.gz

[root@starwind gparted]# ./configure.ac
-bash: ./configure.ac: Permission denied

arochester

Why are you compiling from source and not just installing from Repository?

What distributions of Linux are you using?

 

osama.mansoor

arochester : Thanks for reply but very new in linux i donot understand difference between "Why are you compiling from source and not just installing from Repository?"

I have Oracle Linux Unbreakable 6.5

arochester

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Open a Terminal

Try: rpm –ivh gdebi.rpm