linHDD Installation

linHDD
View properties, partition, format or test speed 
of IDE, SATA drives and USB sticks under Linux.

by Paul Sherman


INSTALL:


linHDD is a Python script, so put linHDD.py and abs_fdisk somwhere 
in your path and run the program. For simplicity sake the 
translations (the /locale folder) should 
also be placed in the same location as the program files. I use 
/usr/local/bin

In case of difficulties, see further information below.



DEPENDENCIES:

	linHDD is a Hard Drive utility written in
	Python, and making use of GTK and pyGTK.

	Dependencies include:
    	python >= 2.4
    	GTK >= 2.6
    	pyGTK >= 2.6
    	Pango
	and uses the system utilities
	(present on most all Linux machines):
	hdparm, df, mkfs and cfdisk and as of 0.4,
	an adapter version of fdisk named abs_fdisk 
	(included in the package, as well as the source cde changes from fdisk)
	
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You have what is one of 2 types of package.

1) A source package
2) A Slackware package


1) Talk about easy. Once the downloaded package in decompressed,
   just put the file linHDD.py and abs_fdisk somewhere in your path.
   

  There is a util-linux subdir in the download.

	These are the 2 files I modified from the util-linux-2.12r release,
	in the event you have to compile it yourself. There are also 2 patches 
	included, that MAY be needed in your system.

	If running linHDD.py spits out an error to you related to abs_fdisk
	(that is not related to it being MISSING), then compile, rename fdisk 
	to abs_fdisk and place it somewhere on your system path.

   
3) Use your package manager of choice (installpkg, xpkgtool, whatever..) 
   Install directory is /usr/bin
   Documentation is put into /usr/doc/linHDD
   
   Run the program by typing: 
   linHDD.py
   
   ...from a term, or create a menu item or symlink to that file.