Hola.
Me conseguí un disco duro de un treabyte : > para usarlo como DD externo para manejar el alacenamiento de audio y video (lo cual me ayudará a evitar que se me acaben los Gb del disco interno de la Lap unos 300Gb que se van volando con video). El caso es que el DD venía con un montón de archivos del dueño anterior que la verdad no me interesan y quería formatearlo.
También tengo un lápiz USB de 4 Gb que no sirve de nada; intenté hacer un disco de arranque de Ubuntu y algo pasó que ni es disco de arranque ni puedo eliminar los datos que tiene (ni desde la terminal como root), y quería formatearlo, pensé que era la opción.
Debido a estos dos problemas me decidí a instalar QtParted, aparentemente la mejor opción gráfica para formatear y particionar discos en Linux. Bajé el archivo comprimido y leí el Readme, encontré que necesitaba tener instaladlo GNUparted primero.
Lo bajo y lo trato de instalar; la verdad nunca he sido muy bueno para instalar compilando, lo he hecho solo una o dos veces, pero parece que para estos dos programas necesito hacerlo. Lo intenté con GNU parted descomprimiendo manualmente la carpeta en el directorio de usuario. Luego entro a la consola (con «sudo -s») y con «cd» me cambio al directorio del programa.
Una vez ahí ejecuto el comando «./configure » (así, literalmente, sin comillas claro). Y bueno, me dio un error, instalo (según yo), lo que me provoca el error y bueno... Mejor pego el código:


configure: error: libdevmapper could not be found, but is required for the
--enable-device-mapper option, which is enabled by default. Either disable
device-mapper support with --disable-device-mapper or download and install
device-mapper from:
http://sources.redhat.com/dm/
Note: if you are using precompiled packages you will need the development
package as well (it may be called device-mapper-devel or something similar).

root@diego-hpcompaq:~/parted-1.9.0# apt-get install libdevmapper
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Nota, seleccionando libdevmapper1.02.1 en lugar de libdevmapper
libdevmapper1.02.1 ya está en su versión más reciente.
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 1 no actualizados.
root@diego-hpcompaq:~/parted-1.9.0# ./configure; make; make install
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checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
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checking whether gcc needs -traditional... no
checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking for ranlib... ranlib
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checking where the gettext function comes from... libc
checking for dlopen in -ldl... yes
checking for uuid_generate in -luuid... yes
checking for dm_task_create in -ldevmapper... no
configure: error: libdevmapper could not be found, but is required for the
--enable-device-mapper option, which is enabled by default. Either disable
device-mapper support with --disable-device-mapper or download and install
device-mapper from:
http://sources.redhat.com/dm/
Note: if you are using precompiled packages you will need the development
package as well (it may be called device-mapper-devel or something similar).

There seems to be no Makefile in this directory.
You must run ./configure before running `make'.
make: *** [abort-due-to-no-makefile] Error 1
There seems to be no Makefile in this directory.
You must run ./configure before running `make'.
make: *** [abort-due-to-no-makefile] Error 1


Entré a la página mencionada del Device-mapper Resource, pero al parecer ya tengo instaladas las librerías que no encuentra:


root@diego-hpcompaq:~/parted-1.9.0# apt-get install dmsetup
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
dmsetup ya está en su versión más reciente.
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 1 no actualizados.
root@diego-hpcompaq:~/parted-1.9.0# apt-get install libdevmapper
Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho
Creando árbol de dependencias
Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho
Nota, seleccionando libdevmapper1.02.1 en lugar de libdevmapper
libdevmapper1.02.1 ya está en su versión más reciente.
0 actualizados, 0 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 1 no actualizados.


¿Alguna sugerencia? ¿Alguien conoce alguna manera más sencilla de instalar QtParted en Ubuntu Jacklope?

Si no tengo instalado el GNUParted no puedo instalar Qtparted...