Bug 52169 - Can't install to a different drive if no space on C:\
Summary: Can't install to a different drive if no space on C:\
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Andras Timar
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: 72189 75570 77016 80525 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2012-07-16 21:21 UTC by tz
Modified: 2014-08-20 05:00 UTC (History)
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Description tz 2012-07-16 21:21:03 UTC 
The install page said: LibreOffice Windows, version 3.5.5, English (US).
There is NO 3.5.5 version above.  This is the one I downloaded today and should be the "release" and it was an MSI.

This is under XP SP3.

I can click Browse... on the custom component screen to tell it I want to install on a different drive, but when I click Next, it ignores the change and brings up the space screen with C: highlighted as not having enough room.  There is no way to get it to bypass this other than making enough space available on C: (and there might not be enough space on D but it might start anyway if it isn't doing it right).
Comment 1 Urmas 2012-07-20 11:54:44 UTC 
Try to move the temporary folder (TEMP environment variable) to another drive.
Comment 2 tz 2012-07-20 16:06:48 UTC 
Moving the msi to the destination drive worked.  There are multiple "TEMP" variables, user and system.  I can move them but they might break something else later.
Comment 3 Andras Timar 2012-09-12 13:07:02 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Moving the msi to the destination drive worked.  There are multiple "TEMP"
> variables, user and system.  I can move them but they might break something
> else later.

If you don't have enough free space on your system drive, you'll have problems sooner or later. 

I don't think it is a bug in LibreOffice.
Comment 4 tz 2012-09-12 13:41:14 UTC 
There is more than enough space on my C drive, but libreoffice is HUGE, and there IS A BUG IN THE SPACE NEEDED COMPUTATION.  I don't have any trouble with my "system drive" - it has enough space for the things it needs, but I have most things elsewhere.

The Bug specifically is, If there is not enough space on C:\ to install LibreOffice, it won't install it to ANY OTHER DRIVE no matter how much space is available there.

How is this "not a bug"?  The installer is supposed to install where it is possible to install, not chide me for having limited space on a drive I'm not going to install to.

It isn't a bug in the body of the installed LibreOffice, but is a bug in the installer itself.

If you don't want to fix it, the least you can do is to give the correct resolution.
Comment 5 Andras Timar 2012-09-12 18:46:39 UTC 
There's no need to rant. If there were a CANTFIX resolution, I would have chosen that. Please note that MSI installer is a database, not a program, and LibreOffice developers cannot change the way that Windows calculates free space.
Comment 6 Maxim Monastirsky 2013-12-02 12:05:33 UTC 
*** Bug 72189 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Maxim Monastirsky 2014-02-27 11:46:37 UTC 
*** Bug 75570 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Maxim Monastirsky 2014-04-06 19:01:40 UTC 
*** Bug 77016 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Maxim Monastirsky 2014-06-25 13:26:15 UTC 
*** Bug 80525 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***