parted failure on SUSE 8.1

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, edj wrote:
% 
% I'm going to move away from SUSE, but before I do that I must resize 
% partitions.  SUSE provides parted 1.6.3; it doesn't seem to work with 
% reiserfs.  The latest is 1.6.5, which acc/to GNU's site, will work with 
% reiser if progsreiserfs is installed.  Did that.  But when I tried to 
% configure parted, it failed - couldn't find libuuid.  I have that, as 
% e2fsprogs is installed.  I went through the documentation, configure 
% --help, etc. and couldn't find how to pass the location to configure.  
% I'm probably missing something very obvious here.  Why would SUSE 
% provide a parted which won't read the default fs?  Also, SUSE doesn't 
% seem to provide an updated parted, and some of that YAST stuff depends 
% on it.  I hope the newer parted,  installed with checkinstall, won't 
% break anything.  But who knows??
% 
% Any advice appreciated.  Thanks.

What is the output of ``locate libuuid''? Where is uuid.h on your
system?

Kurt
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