When you extract the package to /tmp, do a "du -sh <dir>" on the directory. Obviously, replace <dir> with your actual directory and do not type the quotes. Is the result bigger than what you have on /, or any other other file system? ----- Original Message ----- From: tclug at freakzilla.com To: "TCLUG" <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 2:03:26 PM Subject: Re: [tclug-list] dpkg unable to install package I should amend - dpkg-deb -x to /tmp will extract the files. When I try to extract to root, I get: tar: ./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h: Cannot open: No space left on device tar: ./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/mouse: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device tar: ./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/mouse: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device etc, etc. Again, / is nowhere NEAR full. I have no idea where it's trying to find space and not succeding. On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, tclug at freakzilla.com wrote: > Should've mentioned, I did a clear, and it did re-download, same issue. When > I try dpkg manually it does the same thing. dpkg-deb -c shows the files, > dpkg-deb -x does extract them but I'm not sure how to parlay that into an > install. > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2013, Michael Moore wrote: > >> Maybe that .deb file is corrupt? >> >> If you clear out your cache, or at least delete offending .deb file does it >> re-download it and work? >> >> -- >> Michael Moore >> >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:35 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: >> Ok, so I did an apt-get -u dist-upgrade, and it errors out with >> this: >> >> dpkg: error >> processing/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae_3.2.0-56.86_i386 >> .deb (--unpack): >> unable to >> create`/usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h.dpkg- >> new' (while processing >> `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-56-generic-pae/include/config/pppoatm.h'): >> No space left on device >> >> So yeah, it can't create that file because no space left on >> device. >> >> Except there's plenty of space left on device: >> >> root at tiger:/# df -h /usr/src/ >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda5 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /usr >> >> In fact there's no filesystem on this machine that's even close >> to full. Here are the 'real' filesystems: >> >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda3 4.0G 1.2G 2.6G 32% / >> /dev/sda8 9.9G 151M 9.2G 2% /tmp >> /dev/sda1 504M 98M 382M 21% /boot >> /dev/sda7 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 48% /home >> /dev/sda5 4.0G 1.8G 2.0G 47% /usr >> /dev/sda6 4.0G 455M 3.3G 12% /var >> /dev/sda9 2.0G 70M 1.9G 4% /usr/local >> >> I can manually create the files it wants, too. >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Support the digitization of the Iron County Miner newspaper archives >> Like this project on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/digitizeicm >> > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota tclug-list at mn-linux.org http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list