On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 08:00, Ullrich Fischer wrote:
> when I tried to do
> 
> emerge -u gnome mozilla openoffice kde
> 
> it chugged for about 48 hours then came up with "no more disk space 
> available" ... / showed that my 5 GB linux 
> root partition was full.

Yes, OpenOffice alone really does require almost 5 GB of space to build.
Even more if you have FEATURE=buildpkg set.

> Most of the space seems to be taken up by /var/tmp which I can't clear out 
> with rmdir because there are hundreds of subdirectories under that all 
> apparently full of files.

To nuke subdirectories recursively use rm -r dirname, not rmdir

If you no-shit have 5 GB free on whatever partition has /var/tmp on it,
then you should be ok. Otherwise, download the openoffice-bin package,
and it should just work.

AfC

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