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Title: No space left for optional software

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No space left for optional software

Symptom:

Some software such as the demoversion of Applixware will be installed into the directory /opt. But 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 !.

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

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