hwDesktop2025_Linux64 installation fails "Not enough TEMP space"

jbvall
jbvall Altair Community Member
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I am trying to get the installer (hwDesktop2025_Linux64.bin) to understand that there is plenty of disk space but it only ends up with "Not enough TEMP space" after the step where I specify web browser path.

RHEL 8.10

I have attempted to set TEMP folder by using IATEMPDIR='/home/myhomefolder' (32 TB free, which one thinks would be quite enough)

I have tried both sudo -i and then run the installer and su sh ./hwDesktop2025_linux64.bin but with same result.

"Preparing to install
WARNING: /tmp does not have enough disk space! Attempting to use /root for install base and tmp dir."

So, it is clearly not picking up that I want it to use '/home/myhomefolder'

Note: /tmp does indeed have enough disk space, approx 2G

What am I failing to understand, when it comes to telling the installer which TEMP folder to use?

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  • jbvall
    jbvall Altair Community Member
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    Thanks a lot for your input. I did read that note in the documentation, but I don't believe that was the issue here.

    I will blame one part on the installer, and one part on the user (me).

    When running the installer in an interactive shell as root, each failed attempt resulted in all files first being unpacked to a /root/install.dir.<randomnumber> and then installer exited. I did not realize since that until later, when system monitoring informed me of hight utilization of /root mount.

    The solution was:

    1. First, actually create the tempdir. Do not assume it will be automatically created. (my bad, beginner mistake)
    2. IATEMPDIR=/tempdirpath
    3. export IATEMPDIR
    4. sh ./hwDesktop2025_linux64.bin

    Done.

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  • Adriano_Koga
    Adriano_Koga
    Altair Employee

    maybe this is related to this known issue here:

    • On Linux, there is an issue with using the Altair HyperWorks Products Installer (main installer) with the IATEMPDIR variable to specify a custom temporary directory location. All sub-installers will try to use /tmp from the machine running the installers for temporary installer files.

    https://help.altair.com/hwsolvers/altair_help/topics/release_notes/rn_2025_software_and_hardware_r.htm

    maybe you will also need to temporarily change your /tmp as well.

  • jbvall
    jbvall Altair Community Member
    Answer ✓

    Thanks a lot for your input. I did read that note in the documentation, but I don't believe that was the issue here.

    I will blame one part on the installer, and one part on the user (me).

    When running the installer in an interactive shell as root, each failed attempt resulted in all files first being unpacked to a /root/install.dir.<randomnumber> and then installer exited. I did not realize since that until later, when system monitoring informed me of hight utilization of /root mount.

    The solution was:

    1. First, actually create the tempdir. Do not assume it will be automatically created. (my bad, beginner mistake)
    2. IATEMPDIR=/tempdirpath
    3. export IATEMPDIR
    4. sh ./hwDesktop2025_linux64.bin

    Done.

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