How to set temp directory on Ubuntu 24.04

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I am on Ubuntu 24.04 with the latest Local version.

My hard drive has two partitions, with / being on one partition and /home being on another. Trying to install a plugin from within Local brings up this error:

tmp-folder-outside-of-device

Local tries to move things around between my two partitions. How can I set the program to use, for instance, /home/tmp for its temporary file actions? I searched for a solution, but all the posts I found here refer to the temp directories in, for instance, PHP versions used in the program, which does not help this more global temporary folder.

I would expect the settings menu to have an option for that. I guess it’s not only my problem but having two separate partitions for the system and the home directories is quite common on Linux computers.

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Local doesn’t have an option built into it to specify a temp directory, it just uses the same mktmp mechanism as the rest of the Linux ecosystem.

I haven’t tried this, but you might be able to run Local in a shell where you configure the $TMPDIR variable.

I think the command would look something like:

mkdir -p ~/.config/Local/local-tmp-folder # create the folder on your user's partition
export TMPDIR="${HOME}/.config/Local/local-tmp-folder"; /opt/Local/local # or wherever Local is installed to

I’d be curious to know if that works for you!

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Yes, this works perfectly. It’s also good to know that I could just globally set a new TMPDIR in my .bashrc file.

Thanks for your help!