Gparted missing in installation though present on Live CD

[John Hupp]

On 8/17/2013 5:49 AM, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 11:03 PM, John Hupp <lubuntu at prpcompany.com 
> <mailto:lubuntu at prpcompany.com>> wrote:
>
>     While working on the Live-Lubuntu-with-persistence problem, I
>     found that Gparted was present in the Raring Live CD but missing
>     from the Raring installation.
>
>     I have a Quantal machine running here also and noticed Gparted
>     missing from that installation, too.
>
>     Is this by design?  It means that for some operations users either
>     have to master the command line equivalents or load the Live CD.
>
>
>
> Hello John and everyone,
>
> Being a long time user here, as far as I can really remember, GParted 
> got removed from the default applications of an installed system since 
> Ubuntu 10.04. When I asked years ago about that, someone on Ubuntu 
> Forum replied something similar to: 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1906718.html
>
> So, since that time, as far as I know, Ubuntu and its official 
> variants do not include GParted by default after installation.
>
> No bugs, nothing is wrong here.
>
> Why it is on the Live Session?
> Because, some users, me included, like to prepare their partitions 
> before installation.
> Also, LiveCD/LiveUSB can be used as a resuce Disc as well so GParted 
> will come in handy :)
>
> Thank you!
>
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Thanks, Ali (and Pete re the Gparted Live CD).

Above all I wanted to make sure that it was not a case of it being OK 
for certain limited operations during installation but buggy for general 
purposes.
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