Bug Can't use official installer: not enough space in /tmp

Hi there,

I'm having trouble using the official installer; it seems that, no matter what you set the "download to" location to, the installer will always attempt to download to /tmp. The issue is that my /tmp partition is only 300MB (because when I installed Linux I never thought any programs would need more than that amount of space.

Resizing the partition is sadly not an option, and it seems that the installer doesn't respect the TMP, TEMP, or TEMPDIR environment variables (so I can't force it to use a different directory).

Is there any way around this issue?

 

I also have /tmp on a separate partition, tried to set the TEMP, TMP & TEMPDIR - but the enviroment variables are not respected when starting UnityHub (v.2.2.2) from shell.

I also tried a workaround script provided at http://www.tuxad.de/blog/archives/2...nstallation_issue_not_enough_space/index.html ,but the installer stalls in the middle of the download because /tmp is full.

Hope you can fix this bug and provide some way to parse a TMP enviroment variable to the AppImage

 

Hi there,
simply remount /tmp until your download is finished:

a) Either using space of your home-Partition:

mkdir ~/TMP

sudo mount -o bind ~/TMP /tmp

( Install here ... )

sudo umount /tmp

b) Or using space of your RAM (Having 8G should be sufficient.)

sudo mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /tmp

( Install here ... )

sudo umount /tmp

As a permanent solution:

Either making /tmp a ramdisk with a maximum capacity of 1500 MB:

sudo echo "tmpfs /tmp tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,size=1500M 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

Or making /tmp reside in /home/tmp and thus share the same partition.

sudo mkdir /home/tmp

sudo echo "/home/tmp /tmp none bind 0 0" >> /etc/fstab

Use sudo mount /tmp for changes to take effect immediately.

Hope that helped.
Regards.

 

Thanks for the suggestions!

I got the environment variable to work when I specified it inline when running the UnityHub AppImage;

$ TEMP=/disk/unitydl/ ~/Applications/UnityHub.AppImage

After downloading, Unity installed itself just fine. However I hope that Unity will someday publish the download links for Linux, alongside MacOS & Windows as they do today.