Apart GTK

Linux GUI for cloning & restoring disk partitions to & from compressed image files, using partclone to do the heavy lifting.

Install

• Arch: available on the AUR
• Ubuntu/Debian: .deb package available in releases
• Fedora: .rpm package available in releases

If you have dependency issues, see the build sections for your distro. The GTK 3.22 requirement means you'll probably need a >= 2017 distro.

Dependencies

• python >= 3.5
• python-gobject, GTK >= 3.22
• pyzmq, humanize, pyyaml
• polkit - for non-root usage
• apart-core
  • zeromq > 4
  • partclone
  • pigz
  • lz4 (optional: adds compression option)
  • zstd >= 1.2.0 (optional: adds compression option)

Build on Arch

pacman -Syu --needed python python-gobject python-yaml python-pyzmq python-humanize gtk3 partclone zeromq rustup git pigz polkit lz4 zstd

Follow build steps below.

Build on Ubuntu >= 17.04

Build deps: apt install build-essential git libzmq3-dev curl pkg-config python3 + rustup

Run deps: apt install policykit-1 partclone pigz python3-humanize python3-zmq python3-yaml libgtk-3-0 liblz4-tool zstd

Follow build steps below.

Build on Fedora >= 25

dnf install git zeromq-devel rust cargo python3-zmq python3-yaml python3-humanize pigz polkit gtk3 lz4 zstd

Install partclone, ie with something like

wget https://forensics.cert.org/fedora/cert/25/x86_64//partclone-0.2.90-1.fc25.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh partclone-0.2.90-1.fc25.x86_64.rpm

Follow build steps below.

Build

Run ./configure then make having installed the above build dependencies

Manual Install

After building run make install which copies the build made in ./target to /usr

/usr
├─ bin
│  └─ apart-gtk
├─ lib/apart-gtk
│  ├─ apart-core
│  └─ src
│     ├─ app.py
│     └─ ... python files
└─ share
   ├─ applications/apart-gtk.desktop
   ├─ icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/apart.svg
   ├─ icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/apart.png
   └─ polkit-1/actions/com.github.alexheretic.pkexec.apart-gtk.policy

make uninstall can be used to remove these files

Run in test mode

With the dev dependencies installed run ./start-test-app to run from src/ a version of the code with partclone & partition info mocked. This is useful for GUI development, as you can clone and restore without data risk.

Simply using ./start will run against real disks using a dev version of apart-core useful when testing changes to the core.