On Sat, Dec 17 2011, Philip Webb wrote:
> 111216 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> 3. I decided to use another suggestion (from neil) to use
>> PORTAGE_TMPDIR, roeleveld's idea of just using temporary space, and
>> Webb suggested /z for extra space.
>> So I made a normal linux ext3 partition on sda8, created the mount point
>> /mnt/junk and when needed mount sda8 on /mnt/junk and set PORTAGE_TMPDIR
>> accordingly.
>
> I have /z mounted by default at boot-time, but it's the same idea.
>
>> Some readers were suggesting I need 8 or so GB for libreoffice.
>> The failures occurred with 13GB.
>> Today's /mnt/junk success required 16GB. Fortunately sda8 has 50GB.
>
> Libreoffice-3.5.0.0 needed 4,19 GB by the final stages;
> I had 12 GB available in /z at that time.
>
> Eix gives me :
>
> app-office/libreoffice
> Available versions: 3.3.4!t 3.4.3.2-r1!t
> ~3.4.4.2-r1!t **3.4.9999-r2!t ~3.5.0.0 **3.5.9999 **9999-r2
> {aqua bash-completion binfilter +branding cups (-)custom-cflags dbus debug
> eds elibc_FreeBSD gnome (+)graphite gstreamer (+)gtk gtk3 java (+)jemalloc
> kde kdeenablefinal ldap linguas_af linguas_ar linguas_as linguas_ast
> linguas_be_BY linguas_bg linguas_bn linguas_bo linguas_br linguas_brx
> linguas_bs linguas_ca linguas_ca_XV linguas_cs linguas_cy linguas_da
> linguas_de linguas_dgo linguas_dz linguas_el linguas_en linguas_en_GB
> linguas_en_US linguas_en_ZA linguas_eo linguas_es linguas_et linguas_eu
> linguas_fa linguas_fi linguas_fr linguas_ga linguas_gd linguas_gl linguas_gu
> linguas_he linguas_hi linguas_hr linguas_hu linguas_id linguas_is linguas_it
> linguas_ja linguas_ka linguas_kk linguas_km linguas_kn linguas_ko linguas_kok
> linguas_ks linguas_ku linguas_ky linguas_lo linguas_lt linguas_lv linguas_mai
> linguas_mk linguas_ml linguas_mn linguas_mni linguas_mr linguas_ms linguas_my
> linguas_nb linguas_ne linguas_nl linguas_nn linguas_nr linguas_ns linguas_oc
> linguas_om linguas_or linguas_pa_IN linguas_pap linguas_pl linguas_ps
> linguas_pt linguas_pt_BR linguas_ro linguas_ru linguas_rw linguas_sa_IN
> linguas_sat linguas_sd linguas_sh linguas_si linguas_sk linguas_sl linguas_sq
> linguas_sr linguas_ss linguas_st linguas_sv linguas_sw_TZ linguas_ta
> linguas_te linguas_tg linguas_th linguas_ti linguas_tn linguas_tr linguas_ts
> linguas_ug linguas_uk linguas_uz linguas_ve linguas_vi linguas_xh
> linguas_zh_CN linguas_zh_TW linguas_zu mysql (+)nsplugin odk opengl pdfimport
> postgres python svg templates test +vba (+)webdav +xmlsec}
> Installed versions: 3.5.0.0([2011-12-12 04:03:36])(dbus gtk kde nsplugin
> opengl pdfimport svg -aqua -binfilter -branding -debug -eds -elibc_FreeBSD
> -gnome -graphite -gstreamer -gtk3 -java -jemalloc -kdeenablefinal -mysql -odk
> -postgres -test -vba -webdav -xmlsec)
>
> This is a 64-bit system with an Intel Core2 Duo processor.
Pretty similar to mine, which needed 16GB.
I can't explain, but I do have the disk space.
