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On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:07:00 +0200 (CEST), JC Denton wrote: |
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> started an emerge openoffice last night. This |
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> morning I found that the emerge failed and that the |
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> installation has eaten all my space on the hard drive. |
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> I had 1.7GB free and this morning it was 0 GB. |
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That's nowhere near enough. |
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> How can I find out how much space I need? |
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Trial and error :) |
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Generally, an OOo build needs around 3-5GB. |
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> And do I get this space back after the compiling |
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> process is finished? |
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Yes. The reason you didn't get it back is that the emerge aborted so it |
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didn't clean up after itself. |
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You may find it easier to use openoffice-bin, unless this isn't available for your architecture. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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