How To Install gparted on CentOS 8
gparted is Gnome Partition Editor
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gparted on CentOS 8.
What is gparted
GParted stands for Gnome Partition Editor and is a graphical frontend to libparted. Among other features it supports creating, resizing, moving and copying of partitions. Also several (optional) filesystem tools provide support for filesystems not included in libparted. These optional packages will be detected at runtime and don’t require a rebuild of GParted
We can use yum or dnf to install gparted on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gparted.
Install gparted on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gparted using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gparted
Install gparted on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install gparted using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gparted
How To Uninstall gparted on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gparted package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gparted
gparted Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gparted
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/d73f98761d7fc99dfc47da67c5927e3f650df9
/usr/libexec/gpartedbin
/usr/share/appdata/gparted.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gparted
/usr/share/doc/gparted/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gparted/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gparted/README
/usr/share/help/C/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/C/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/C/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/cs/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/cs/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/cs/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/de/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/de/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/de/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/el/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/el/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/el/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/es/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/es/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/es/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/fr/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/fr/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/fr/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/gd/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/gd/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/gd/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/it/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/it/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/it/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/pt_BR/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/pt_BR/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/pt_BR/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/ro/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/ro/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/ro/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/ru/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/ru/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/ru/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/sl/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/sl/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/sl/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/sr/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/sr/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/sr/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/sr@latin/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/sr@latin/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/sr@latin/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/sv/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/sv/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/sv/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/te/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/te/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/te/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/th/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/th/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/th/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/help/uk/gparted/figures
/usr/share/help/uk/gparted/figures/gparted_window.png
/usr/share/help/uk/gparted/index.docbook
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/gparted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/gparted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/gparted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/gparted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/gparted.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/gparted.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gparted
/usr/share/licenses/gparted/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gparted.mo
/usr/share/man/man8/gparted.8.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/gparted.appdata.xml
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gparted.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gparted on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.