From 3906a43757f74d630a858d5ebba0d1006bda5a29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Curtis Gedak Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2008 20:20:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Enhanced INSTALL section of README svn path=/trunk/; revision=834 --- ChangeLog | 6 +++++- README | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------ 2 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 0b39362a..7c7e768f 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,11 @@ +2008-04-26 Curtis Gedak + + * README: Enhanced INSTALL information + - Closes GParted bug 529625 + 2008-04-25 Curtis Gedak * README: Updated to better align with GNU coding standards - - Closes GParted bug 529625 2008-04-23 Curtis Gedak diff --git a/README b/README index a591b9e9..02b881c7 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -15,12 +15,6 @@ contained within. This is useful for creating space for new operating systems, reorganizing disk usage, and mirroring one partition with another (disk imaging). -Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and -partition tables. Several optional packages provide additional file -system support. Optional packages include: - e2fsprogs, dosfstools, mtools, hfsutils, jfsutils, - ntfsprogs, reiser4progs, reiserfsprogs, and xfsprogs. - Gparted can also be used with storage devices other than hard disks, such as USB flash drives, and memory cards. @@ -36,8 +30,41 @@ found in the file: INSTALL ------- -Installation instructions can be found in the file: - INSTALL +a. Pre-built Binary + + Many GNU/Linux distributions already provide a pre-built binary + package for GParted. Instructions on how to install GParted on + some distributions is given below: + + (K)Ubuntu + --------- + sudo apt-get install gparted + + Fedora + ------ + su - + yum install gparted + +b. Building from Source + + Building Gparted from source requires that several dependencies are + installed. These include: + g++ + e2fsprogs + parted + gtkmm24 + gettext + + On (K)Ubuntu, these dependencies may be obtained by running the + following command; + sudo apt-get install build-essential e2fsprogs uuid uuid-dev \ + gnome-common libparted-dev libgtkmm-2.4-dev + + On Fedora, you will need to run (as root); + yum install gtkmm24-devel parted-devel e2fsprogs-devel gettext \ + perl(XML::Parser) desktop-file-utils + + The INSTALL file contains further GNU installation instructions. COPYING @@ -63,17 +90,10 @@ src - contains C++ source code DISTRIBUTION NOTES ------------------ -The following notes are intended to assist GNU/Linux distribution -packagers. More information on GParted features can be found at: -http://gparted.sourceforge.net/features.php +Gparted uses GNU libparted to detect and manipulate devices and partition +tables. Several optional packages provide additional file system support. +Optional packages include: -GParted Dependencies: - libparted - libuuid - libdl - libgtkmm - -Optional (suggested) packages: e2fsprogs dosfstools mtools