[Solved] When trying to install a browser I get not enough space error...

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[Solved] When trying to install a browser I get not enough space error...

Post#1 by frunge » 19 Jul 2022, 10:07

I was trying to install a browser from the browser install/update screen. I get an error in red saying "Error: not enough space to run script" or something similar. Any advice?

[Edit] Following advice I went to: http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.html ... .0/modules and copied the Opera module to /mnt/sdb1/porteus/modules. Oddly I didn't need to do anything to get Opera working.
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Post#2 by ncmprhnsbl » 19 Jul 2022, 12:24

this usually means you don't have much RAM

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free -h
will give an indication..
this is happening before you get any choice to download a premade browser module, right? if so it's a bug..
at this point there's two choices:
either go to one of http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.html /x86_64/Porteus-v5.0/modules and pick a browser, download,and place in /mnt/sdb1/porteus/modules, rightclick> activate
or
if you have a POSIX(eg. ext4 not fat or ntfs) partition somewhere (internal harddrive for example) you can, in a terminal:

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cd /path/to/your/posix/partition
su <password>
update-browser -d -f  (for firefox ... use update-browser -h to get the codes for other browsers)
the -d option does all the build operations in the directory you cd to..
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When trying to install a browser I get not enough space error...

Post#3 by frunge » 19 Jul 2022, 12:59

Thanks for the quick reply. The computer has 4GB, although free -h shows only 3.7GB. I'll try the direct download route.

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Post#4 by ncmprhnsbl » 19 Jul 2022, 13:40

frunge wrote:
19 Jul 2022, 12:59
The computer has 4GB, although free -h shows only 3.7GB
hmm, that should be plenty, unless of course, if you happened to be using a lot of it at the time..
i've adjusted the live download scripts, so they should at least allow for to download the server version before checking for space..
(allow a day or so for the change to propagate to all our mirrors)
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[Solved] When trying to install a browser I get not enough space error...

Post#5 by frunge » 20 Jul 2022, 07:49

Solved using advice from ncmprhnsbl. Thanks.

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Post#6 by Ed_P » 20 Jul 2022, 19:34

ncmprhnsbl wrote:
19 Jul 2022, 13:40
allow for to download the server version before checking for space..
If the file is already downloaded why bother checking for space?
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Post#7 by ncmprhnsbl » 20 Jul 2022, 23:30

Ed_P wrote:
20 Jul 2022, 19:34
If the file is already downloaded why bother checking for space?
let me rephrase that: should at least allow for the choice to download the server version before checking for space after choosing not to..
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