problem when installing gparted in FC5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006, joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I tried to install gparted:
>
> yum install gparted
> [...]
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Package gparted.i386 0:0.2.5-1.fc5 set to be updated
> --> Running transaction check
> --> Processing Dependency: libparted-1.6.so.14 for package: gparted
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Missing Dependency: libparted-1.6.so.14 is needed by package gparted
> 
> Bu when i try to install libparted-1.6.so.14, getting:
>
> yum install libparted
> [...]
> No Match for argument: libparted
> Nothing to do
>
> I think yum itself should resolve the dependencies.

It would if it could.  After the latest updates:

$ rpm -q --provides parted
libparted-1.7.so.1
parted = 1.7.1-15.fc5

>
> Any advice welcome.

gparted needs to be rebuilt against the latest parted.  File a bug if 
there isn't one already.

>
> Regards
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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