gnome-disk-utility-41.0

Introduction to GNOME Disk Utility

The GNOME Disk Utility package provides applications used for dealing with storage devices.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.1 platform.

Package Information

GNOME Disk Utility Dependencies

Required

gnome-settings-daemon-41.0, itstool-2.0.7, libdvdread-6.1.2, libhandy-1.4.0, libpwquality-1.4.4, libsecret-0.20.5, and UDisks-2.9.4

Optional

appstream-glib

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/gnome-disk-utility

Installation of GNOME Disk Utility

First, fix building with newer versions of meson:

sed -i '/merge_file/{n;d}' data/meson.build

Install GNOME Disk Utility by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

meson --prefix=/usr --buildtype=release .. &&
ninja

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

ninja install

Contents

Installed Programs: gnome-disk-image-mounter and gnome-disks
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: None

Short Descriptions

gnome-disk-image-mounter

is used to set up disk images

gnome-disks

is used to inspect, format, partition and configure disks and block devices

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