Alt+F2 work, but it doesn't give me access to gparted.
I have never worked with a program in the terminal before, just written code/commands.
Do I have to use sudo to open up gparted? And what else?
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GParted needs root privileges to run. It comes with a wrapper that asks you for your admin password and elevates its privileges, called gparted-pkexec. You have to run that one instead of gparted directly.
However, you say you downloaded GParted. If you mean by this that you downloaded it off some website, you normally shouldn't have done that. GParted is available from the official Ubuntu repositories and can be installed using
sudo apt install gparted
or through your Software Center. This version will make sure GParted is well integrated into your system and e.g. provide a launcher icon, so you don't have to use Alt+F2.
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