Why can I not find gpart in the Fedora repos for x86_64 systems?

asked 2013-06-17 06:19:54 -0500

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updated 2014-09-28 23:54:56 -0500

mether
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A small prequel: In Fedora 18, tried to recover partitions on a USB-stick with gparted (0.14.1), (Device-attempt data rescue) gparted spawns me this error: Command gpart was not found This feature uses gpart. Please install gpart and try again. So I tried installing gpart, but it appears not available:

[root@cal-26 ~]# yum provides gpart
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
No Matches found
[root@cal-26 ~]# yum search all gpart
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
=============================================================== Matched: gpart ===============================================================
gparted.x86_64 : Gnome Partition Editor
svgpart.x86_64 : SVG KPart
pgp-tools.x86_64 : Collection of several utilities related to OpenPGP
[root@cal-26 ~]#

Nevertheless the package should be available http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=1027

Seeing the above link I would have expected to be available in the standard repo for fedora, defined in

/etc/yum.repos.de

by mirrorlist=https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=fedora-$releasever&arch=$basearch

Seems not the case?

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answered 2013-06-17 07:19:10 -0500

FranciscoD_
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updated 2013-06-18 22:42:11 -0500

I've run into this too. It looks like the package is only for 32 bit systems (spec file line 20) If you look at one of the builds, you'll see that it's only built for the i686 arch.

I'll mail the maintainers to ask why this is so. In the mean time, please use testdisk to recover your partition table. It works really well.

sudo yum install testdisk

Here's a post on how to use it: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

PS: I'm updating the question title to be more specific to the gpart package

EDIT: I've talked to the maintainer and he's updated the spec in rawhide to also include an x86_64 build (koji#5512626). If you'd like it to be available for Fedora 19/18, please file a bug at http://bugzilla.redhat.com against the gpart component.

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Thanks Francisco, haven't checked testdisk yet, but thank you for explaining and giving the options.

jringoot ( 2013-06-27 17:35:37 -0500 )edit

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answered 2013-06-17 15:36:10 -0500

sergiomb

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repoquery \*gpart\* --nvr 
gparted-0.14.1-1.fc18 
svgpart-4.10.4-1.fc18

are you looking for gparted ?

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sorry I don't read well the question , I installed gparted and ask for root password and runs without problem the output was: ====================== libparted : 3.1 ======================

sergiomb ( 2013-06-25 16:38:19 -0500 )edit

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