Openoffice install

mm3000 · 08-01-2004, 03:54 AM

I am having a problem with OOo says there not enough room in /tmp. the other threads I searched talked about changing partitions. Is there a way to make ./setup install to another directory other then /tmp. Or do I have to change the partitions. I really do not want to do this at the moment.
Any suggestions
Cheers

gbonvehi · 08-01-2004, 05:12 AM

According to: http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/setup-linux.html you can choose where to extract the files, /tmp or any other directory you want (/tmp is just an example).
I don't have the installation now but if you can't solve it i'll download it and see if i can help.

mm3000 · 08-01-2004, 05:39 AM

Thanks bgonvehi for the responce,however when you ./setup it uses the /tmp folder be default before the installation starts. thats were i have the trouble.
cheers

reddazz · 08-01-2004, 05:55 AM

Have you tried emptying the /tmp folder?

gbonvehi · 08-01-2004, 06:25 AM

I'm downloading, i'll edit this post when i find a solution

mm3000 · 08-01-2004, 06:52 AM

cheers
for that gbonvehi

Cedrik · 08-01-2004, 07:15 AM

you can always try a symlink at least (i would try it as single user if it fails)

mv /tmp /tmp.bak
ln -s /directory/from/other/partition /tmp

gbonvehi · 08-01-2004, 07:26 AM

Cedrik solutions seems nice, but be carefull try to not have programs running that are using the tmp files.
Well setup doesn't have a option to change the temporary dir. However, i tried running the file install and it installed the program in multi user mode (the best choice because it shares the main files between users

) and only saw a temp file created.

mm3000 · 08-01-2004, 07:41 AM

gbonvehi
what options did you use?

gbonvehi · 08-01-2004, 07:53 AM

None, just run: ./install instead of ./setup (the aren't command line options to change the temp directory, there are for other things but not for that).

mm3000 · 08-01-2004, 08:05 AM

Still no luck, this is the message I get

Code:

dave@linux:~/OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install$ ./install
Installation starting, please be patient ...
glibc version: 2.3.2
./setup: The temporary directory is full. (/tmp/sv003.tmp)

Installation Completed

So I am back to where I started. I will try Cedrik suggestion in the morning
thanks for trying

gbonvehi · 08-01-2004, 08:15 AM

Found a solution, open a terminal and type: export TEMP="temporary dir ending with /"
then in the same terminal without closing it run ./setup

IE: bash-2.05b# export TEMP="/mnt/hdb2/"
bash-2.05b# ./setup

mm3000 · 08-02-2004, 04:22 AM

Thanks gbonvehi, your a champ. it worked like a gem.
cheers