From fb64173bb411c12f63a339c1574dca31666c477b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Gajda Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 13:35:28 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: Standalone binary / pyinstaller extracts dependencies into /tmp. Currently /tmp requires about ~28MB of free space. It also needs exec permissions. Closes #499 --- docs/installation.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/installation.rst b/docs/installation.rst index 13de6ae0a..7a007e31a 100644 --- a/docs/installation.rst +++ b/docs/installation.rst @@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ make borg readable and executable for its users and then you can run ``borg``:: sudo chown root:root /usr/local/bin/borg sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/borg +Note that the binary uses /tmp to unpack |project_name| with all dependencies. It will fail if /tmp has not enough free space or is mounted with the ``noexec`` option. You can change the temporary directory by setting the ``TEMP`` environment variable before running |project_name|. + If a new version is released, you will have to manually download it and replace the old version using the same steps as shown above.