how to increase /var space

arshzia · 05-18-2008, 04:40 AM

Hello to all,
i am installing open office from my server RPM folder, when i type acommand # yum install open office*, it is installing openoffice on /var, and my /var space is 512MB. but the rpm which iam installing is of 741MB so iam getting a error message of insufficient disk space. now i want to increase my /var space. can u please tell me how to increase /var space.

colucix · 05-18-2008, 06:31 AM

Actually it does not install OpenOffice in /var, it just downloads packages in the /var/cache directory before installing them. Instead of messing up your partitions, I suggest to download packages in a different location, then install them from this local directory. To do this you can try

Code:

yumdownloader --resolve --destdir /path/to/dir openoffice

the yumdownloader utility comes with the package yum-utils, which is not installed by default. The command above downloads openoffice and all its dependencies (see --resolve) in the directory specified by the --destdir option. Chose an appropriate location where you have enough space and the trick is done.

When you have packages stored in a local directory, you can tell yum to install from there:

Code:

yum localinstall /path/to/dir/*.rpm

Anyway, the size of 741 Mb looks huge to me. The core OpenOffice package is about 80 Mb, where the other 660 Mb come from?