Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

Question

I was trying to install

python -m spacy download en_vectors_web_lg

But it was throwing error:

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

May I know why is it creating the error ? Is it saying that I do not have enogh space in directory to install ??

Answer 1

Most likely it is trying to download the data to your /tmp temporary location. My guess is that the default settings (usually half your ram) is too small to handle the download.

You can disable the tmp mount by using the following command: systemctl mask tmp.mount. Be careful and do your research before doing this.

Alternatively you can set your TMPDIR directory to /var/tmp by doing the following export TMPDIR='/var/tmp'

Answer 2

As it is mentioned here, you can create a directory where you have enough space, say /folder/address/here/, and run below command to install it:

TMPDIR=/folder/address/here/ pip install --cache-dir=$TMPDIR --build $TMPDIR package-name

Since my own case was upgrading tensorflow, I ran this:

TMPDIR=/folder/address/here/ pip install --upgrade --cache-dir=$TMPDIR --build $TMPDIR tensorflow

Answer 3

I had to do a system prune to make more space.

docker system prune

Note that this will "remove all unused containers, networks, images (both dangling and unreferenced), and optionally, volumes." So make sure you're not blowing away anything you need.

Answer 4

If you are working on a docker container I would advise to figure out why your docker is full, and then empty whatever is taking up space.

To figure out what is taking up the space run:

docker system df

After that run:

docker <container/image/builder> prune --all

to clean whatever takes up all the space.