Hi,

I am currently running slackware 12.2 on a 25 GB partition. I like to use slackbuilds, but when I try to compile larger tarballs (like abiword, or a patched version of Ghostscript as I did today) I receive an error-message: 'Not enough space left on device'. I think the size of the partition must be big enough (I never got this message when compiling with Linux From Scratch). I think it has something to do with the size of my /tmp directory, but I don't know how to fix this. Is there a way to solve the problem, so that I could be able to use slackbuild-scripts?

Thanks in advance!

if the slackbuild is from slackbuilds.org, you can set the temporary folder to the location you prefeer exporting the TMP variable to the script, like
it could work also with no-slackbuilds.org slackbuilds, just look at the top of it if the TMP variable is used, you should find something like
this means, "if not already set, give TMP the value of /tmp/SBo".

usually, the slackbuild scripts uncompress and build sources in $TMP/$PRGNAM-$VERSION and package them in $TMP/package-$PRGNAM.

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You might want to clear out old sources from /tmp/SBo too.

First check whether u have space available.
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Thank you,Ponce en Dive,

Ponces solution worked for me!