No space left for optional software

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Symptom:

Some sofware such as the demoversion of Applixware will be installed into the directory /opt. However there is not enough space available in the root-partition.

Cause:

See above.

Solution:

Configure your system in a way that there is enough space available below /opt. There are several possibilities :

1. possibility :

Create the directory /opt and mount an empty partition (/dev/sdb2 in our example) on it :

        mkdir /opt
        mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb2 /opt

2. possibility :

There is still enough space on some other partition of your system, e.g. below /usr. Create a directory there (e.g. opt) and create a symbolic link :

        cd /
        mkdir /usr/opt
        ln -s /usr/opt /opt

3. possibility (not recommended !) :

You can try to use the rpm-option --root . However not every software package understands this option, so be careful !.


Keywords: OPT, SPACE, ROOT, ROOTPARTITION, PARTITION, APPLIXWARE

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