Anilrgowda

Question
It's just too late here for me to keep dealing with this. I'm trying to resize the partitions on my hard drive. I partitioned my 80 GB drive 50-30 (windows-linux). Well it seems I need more space for windows. Hence resize. But I can't remember how I did the partitioning during the install. Looking around seems to indicate that I need gparted, and oh it's soooo easy to install right?

sudo apt-get install gparted

*SMACK* Couldn't find package gparted.

So I browsed around, found some RPMs, installed those, gparted appeared, but failed to load, some error about libparted-1.6.so.14, tried installing another rpm which contained this file (parted), nothing changed.

Compiling from source isn't my cup of tea right now. I'm going to sleep. If anyone can help, thank you so much.

Soln
There is a gparted package for Ubuntu, you just need to add the 'universe' repository to your /etc/apt/sources.list file and then run "apt-get update".

The lines should be in there already, you just need to uncomment them. For 5.04 "hoary" they are:

deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hoary universe

You must be using 5.04 or older, because gparted is in the 'main' repository in Ubuntu 5.10.