How To Install gparted on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install gparted on Rocky Linux 8. gparted is Gnome Partition Editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gparted on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gparted.

Install gparted on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gparted using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gparted

Install gparted on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the gparted package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gparted

gparted Package Contents on Rocky Linux 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

gparted website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gparted on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.