Question: Hi, I was using ‘yum‘ command to install ‘lshw‘ package on CentOS virtual machine. Unfortunately, the command failed with an error message as “lshw-B.02.17-3.el6.x86_64: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/base/packages“. Below is the snapshot of the complete error:
[root@sandy ~]# yum install lshw Installing: lshw x86_64 B.02.17-3.el6 base 253 k Error Downloading Packages: lshw-B.02.17-3.el6.x86_64: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/base/packages * free 0 * needed 253 k
Any suggestion would be appreciated? – Sandy
Solution:
Sandy, the error message gives a hint with stats as ‘free 0’, which means you are running out of disk space and it needs at least ‘253k’ to install the package.
Check disk space using ‘df -h‘ command.
In case, if you see an output similar to the one shown below, then you should try to free up some space under ‘/’ partition.
/dev/sda1 4.9G 4.8G 0 100% /
Assume, you have enough space on another partition, then you can change ‘cachedir‘ directory in yum.conf. See below e.g.,
# vi /etc/yum.conf [main] sslverify=0 cachedir=/anotherpartition/yum/cache/ ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
That’s it!
Note: However, you should try to clean up some space in ‘/’ partition 🙂
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