WARNING: /tmp does not have enough disk space!

[timbo]

Hey. I'm fighting to get SPSS installed on my system after I did a fresh install.

The problem which occurs during the installation (actually before I can install) is that /tmp doesn't have sufficient space:

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Preparing to install...
WARNING: /tmp does not have enough disk space!
         Attempting to use /root for install base and tmp dir.

WARNING! The amount of /root disk space required to perform
this installation is greater than what is available.  Please
free up at least 1489714 kilobytes in /root and attempt this
installation again.  You may also set the IATEMPDIR environment
variable to a directory on a disk partition with enough free
disk space.  To set the variable enter one of the following
commands at the UNIX command line prompt before running this
installer again:

- for Bourne shell (sh), ksh, bash and zsh:

     $ IATEMPDIR=/your/free/space/directory
     $ export IATEMPDIR

- for C shell (csh) and tcsh:

     $ setenv IATEMPDIR /your/free/space/directory

Trying to solve the problem in the suggested way, i.e. creating a substitute folder does so far not work for me. Am I not doing it correctly?

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:~$ IATEMPDIR=/home/timbo/tmp/
:~$ export IATEMPDIR

[karlchen]

Hello, timbo.

The setup programme needs round about 1.4 GB of free disk space
+ either in the filesystem where /tmp is located
+ or in another filesystem where the variable IATEMPDIR points to

Pointing the variable IATEMPDIR to /home/timbo/tmp would be fine, provided the filesystem which holds your home directory has got sufficient free disk space.

The most important question really is which filesystems do you have on your machine and how much free disk space is available on each of them?

Please, inside a terminal window execute the commands

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sudo fdisk -l
df -k

and post the screen output here so that we can determine which filesystems you have created during your Mint installation, what sizes they have and how much space is still available on each of them.

Kind regards,
Karl

[timbo]

Hey Karlchen.

df -k:

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Filesystem                                             1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                   7786092  3605308   3790232  49% /
udev                                                     2993628        0   2993628   0% /dev
tmpfs                                                     599916      444    599472   1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/f21e01fd-664a-41fd-82b6-8730a5fe414e   7786092  3605308   3790232  49% /
tmpfs                                                       5120        0      5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                                                    1199828       20   1199808   1% /tmp
tmpfs                                                    1199828      372   1199456   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda2                                              293177400 76488396 201796412  28% /home


There is plenty (>200gb) of space on my /home partition, so using IATEMPDIR should normally work just fine.

[karlchen]

Hello, timbo.

Confirmed. 200 GB of available disk space is definitely more than the needed 1.4 GB.
Have you tried something trivial like not appending a trailing slash to the IATEMPDIR path, i.e.

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export IATEMPDIR=/home/timbo/tmp

Another thing: you export IATEMPDIR under your account inside the current terminal session. So the variable IATEMPDIR will only be known and valid inside this terminal session and inside child processes of this terminal session. Is the SPSS installation really launched and executed by user timbo and inside the same terminal session where you exported IATEMPDIR?

I have got no idea what SPSS, what the system prerequisites are and how it is installed. So in case you should keep on experiencing trouble installing the software, the right thing to do may be contacting the software producer?!

Kind regards,
Karl

[timbo]

Hey there.

The trailing slash was among the many hunches I had about what I might have done wrong. Unfortunately I still didn't get it to install, but it was suggested to me to mount a USB drive as /tmp to fstab, which I'll try next.

Thanks for your help and I'll post back here how the fstab approach went.

[AlbertP]

The program wants to have disk space available on your root partition. Probably you can use GParted from a Live CD to shrink /home and give / some more space.

[timbo]

SOLVED. I figured that resizing would be a quick thing but neglected the fact that I had to free space at the beginning of /home. 2.5 hours later I can do statistics again

Thank you everyone!