Ubuntu 7.10's GParted 0.3.3: How to get it more accurate ?

[NoOp]

On 03/03/2008 02:43 PM, SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 23:10 +0100, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> SYNass IT Ubuntu / Linux wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:00 -0800, Richard Rudnick wrote:
>> > > gparted (source: gparted): GNOME partition editor. In component main,
>> > > is optional. Version 0.3.5-1ubuntu2 (hardy), package size 340 kB,
>> > > installed size 2100 kB
>> >
>> > Unfortunately I am unable to follow resp getting it ;-(
>> >
>> > My Synaptic still shows GParted with version 0.3.3-2 only !
>> 
>> That's right - you are using Gutsy, not Hardy. This version isn't 
>> available for Gutsy. Therefore you could do one of these:
>> 
>> - compile the new version from the source code,
> 
> As a newbie I am unable to and would not risk to try and spoil my
> running system ;-)
>  
>> - wait for Hardy until it is ready in April
> 
> better, will have to ! :-D
> 
>> - use the alpha version of Hardy
> 
> sorry, no alpha / beta experiments with my newbie knowledge and the
> productive system ;-))
> 
> Thank you Nils !
> Cheers, svobi
> 
> 

You 'can' install it in Gutsy if you also install the hardy libc6.
However then you might screw up something else down the road. I had the
hardy libc6 installed on this machine for over a month before I ran into
an issue. Can't exactly what the issue was, but it was minor and dealt
with something in Wine if I recall. I simply reinstalled the standard
Gutsy libc6 with no ill effects at all. That said: normal warnings about
installing things from other releases apply... proceed at your own risk.

So... if you feel adventurous; download the hardy libc6 deb from
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libc6 and then install the hardy gparted.

Note: an easy way to quickly find out the dependency issues _using a
gui_ is to just double-click on the deb file from Nautilus. That will
bring up the package installer & if dependencies aren't met, it will
tell you which one(s) you need.