[Solved]How big is kde?

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Doki · Post by **Doki** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:42 pm

Hello ^^
I'm new to the gentoo world, and I would have only one little question (for now ^ ^ )
The installation went ok, so I decided to try to install KDE...
But it seems I went out of free disk space, even if I set PORTAGE_TMPDIR to another partition...
My root partition is 3.7GB, and I have nothing installed except the gentoo base system, and Xorg and a part of KDE...
So can you tell me the minimum size needed to run a full Kde desktop environment? ^^
Or maybe could I just make free space by deleting some installation stuff I don't need anymore? ^^
Thank for your attention ^^

KRF · Post by **KRF** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 6:52 pm

Are you having fun? ^^

juniper · Post by **juniper** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:25 pm

3.7 gigs may not do it.

you can safely remove the contents of /usr/portage/distfiles (don't remove the cvs directory in the, just the files). this is where portage stores sources, so once compiled you don't really need them.

as for you question, i don't have kde installed (i have gnome) and I am not at home right now so i can't tell you how big that is.

Hum · Post by **Hum** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:42 pm

believe it or not 3.7gb is big enough. I have my / running on a 3.8gb partition. my /usr/portage and my /home directory is on another partition which is only 3.1gb. Delete /usr/portage/distfiles stuff and clear out /tmp. If you're using ccache clear that out too. The other trick is to not install kde meta but to do a kde minimal install (kdebase-startkde) and then install anything else that you may want. If you're really desperate for space add nodoc noman to your FEATURES="" section of your make.conf. That should complete your install. Have fun! Oh and yes you can delete the stuff in the cvs directory if you want. It'll just redownload stuff from cvs when you do a reinstall of those packages which came from cvs.

vorgas · Post by **vorgas** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:28 am

Also make sure you aren't building packages when you emerge them. This can happen with the '--buildpkg' or '-b' option in an emerge, or the 'buildpkg' flag in the FEATURES section of /etc/make.conf

vorgas · Post by **vorgas** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 5:38 am

You can also find out what is taking up the most space by the following:

1. Open up a terminal
2. Become root
3. cd /
4. du -ch | grep [0-9][0-9]M

This will give you a listing of files/directories that are at least 10 meg or more. You may also want to do:

5: du -ch | grep [0-9]G

Just in case you actually have a directory chewing up a gig. Finally, if you want to get super fancy,
you can drop out any directories you know aren't mounted on your root partition:

4 du -ch | grep -v home | grep -v media | grep [0-9][0-9]M

This will give you an idea of what to look for. Of course, don't go blindly deleting anything over 10 Meg.

Doki · Post by **Doki** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 11:18 am

Thanks to you all I finally managed to finish KDE Install ^^
But 3.7GB is very short to run KDE ^^ I only installed it + amarak and I just have 15 MB left on my root partition ^^
I will now try to reinstall gentoo on a new hardrive disk ^^ Now I have see how it works, I think it desserves it

Thank you all ^^

[Solved]How big is kde?

[Solved]How big is kde?

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