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When you install GParted in Ubuntu 19.10, it installs the old version 0.32.0-2.

$ sudo apt-get install gparted
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
  xfsprogs reiserfsprogs reiser4progs jfsutils kpartx dmraid gpart udftools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gparted
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/482 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,245 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package gparted.
(Reading database ... 212957 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../gparted_ ===> 0.32.0-2 <=== _amd64.deb ...
Unpacking gparted (0.32.0-2) ...
Setting up gparted (0.32.0-2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.63ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.7-3) ...

How to install the latest one, 1.1.0-5, or, at least any version higher than 1 ? Command line solution preferred (I mean apt-get or Snap).

thank you!

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  • Having trouble wiping/formating two different SD cards in 3 different adapters in 3 different computers, 2 different OSes, 3 different partition softwares. Maybe and just maybe the new GParted at least tell me where the problem might be. Agreed the fact that is safer to use the given version, but worth a shot.
    – blagus
    Sep 30, 2020 at 21:44
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    I have Ubuntu 20.04 and its default gparted is 1.0. I sometimes have downloaded the gparted ISO to get latest and boot that. gparted.org/download.php Shows as 1.1
    – oldfred
    Sep 30, 2020 at 22:30
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    You might want to also ask about the problem you are experiencing when trying to format the SD cards. That's the actual problem that you are trying to solve. To me it would seem more likely that the problem has to do with something on your end. The extent of the issue you are explaining, if it was a fault with the software, I don't think it would go unnoticed and unpatched. Have you tried "Disks" for your use case?
    – Nmath
    Sep 30, 2020 at 22:43
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    Ubuntu 19.10 (along with all flavors) is End-of-Life and thus unsupported on this site (askubuntu.com/help/on-topic), and many other Ubuntu sites, unless your question is specific to moving to a supported release of Ubuntu. fridge.ubuntu.com/2020/07/17/… help.ubuntu.com/community/EOLUpgrades
    – guiverc
    Sep 30, 2020 at 23:10
  • This seems like the common, classic misunderstanding that many new users have about snapshot-based distros.
    – user535733
    Oct 1, 2020 at 3:27

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You might really want to see if there is something wrong with the cards, etc first, but in the meantime if you really need the newest version, here you go:

Download the tar.gz file from https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted/gparted-1.1.0/

Extract the file

tar zxvf gparted-1.1.0.tar.gz

Install required prereqs

sudo apt build-dep gparted
sudo apt install libgtkmm-3.0-dev itstool build-essential

Go to the gparted folder

cd gparted-1.1.0/

Now run the configure, make and make install:

./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

Now gparted should show the newest version:

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