Help solve a failing virtual env. installation

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On installing an app. package (argostranslation), by use of pip package manager, into a directory on /home/ containing 49 GB remaining space,

suddenly there’s a failure in such:

……
Using cached fsspec-2025.10.0-py3-none-any.whl (200 kB)
Using cached networkx-3.5-py3-none-any.whl (2.0 MB)
Using cached sympy-1.14.0-py3-none-any.whl (6.3 MB)
Using cached click-8.3.0-py3-none-any.whl (107 kB)
Using cached emoji-2.15.0-py3-none-any.whl (608 kB)
Using cached filelock-3.20.0-py3-none-any.whl (16 kB)
Using cached joblib-1.5.2-py3-none-any.whl (308 kB)
Using cached regex-2025.11.3-cp312-cp312-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux_2_28_x86_64.whl (803 kB)
Using cached spacy-3.8.8-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (33.2 MB)
Using cached catalogue-2.0.10-py3-none-any.whl (17 kB)
Using cached murmurhash-1.0.13-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (128 kB)
Using cached preshed-3.0.10-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (869 kB)
Using cached pydantic-2.12.4-py3-none-any.whl (463 kB)
Using cached pydantic_core-2.41.5-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (2.1 MB)
Using cached spacy_legacy-3.0.12-py2.py3-none-any.whl (29 kB)
Using cached spacy_loggers-1.0.5-py3-none-any.whl (22 kB)
Using cached srsly-2.5.1-cp312-cp312-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl (1.1 MB)
Using cached thinc-8.3.8-cp312-cp312-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.whl (3.9 MB)
Downloading blis-1.3.1-cp312-cp312-manylinux2014_x86_64.manylinux_2_17_x86_64.whl (11.4 MB)
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 11.4/11.4 MB 1.4 MB/s 0:00:07
Using cached confection-0.1.5-py3-none-any.whl (35 kB)
Using cached tqdm-4.67.1-py3-none-any.whl (78 kB)
Using cached typer_slim-0.20.0-py3-none-any.whl (47 kB)
Using cached weasel-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (50 kB)
Using cached cloudpathlib-0.23.0-py3-none-any.whl (62 kB)
Using cached smart_open-7.5.0-py3-none-any.whl (63 kB)
Using cached annotated_types-0.7.0-py3-none-any.whl (13 kB)
Using cached typing_inspection-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl (14 kB)
Installing collected packages: typing-inspection, triton, tqdm, sympy, spacy-loggers, spacy-legacy, smart-open, regex, pydantic-core, protobuf, nvidia-nvtx-cu12, nvidia-nvshmem-cu12, nvidia-nvjitlink-cu12, nvidia-nccl-cu12, nvidia-curand-cu12, nvidia-cufile-cu12, nvidia-cuda-runtime-cu12, nvidia-cuda-nvrtc-cu12, nvidia-cuda-cupti-cu12, nvidia-cublas-cu12, networkx, murmurhash, joblib, fsspec, filelock, emoji, cloudpathlib, click, catalogue, blis, annotated-types, typer-slim, srsly, sacremoses, pydantic, preshed, nvidia-cusparse-cu12, nvidia-cufft-cu12, nvidia-cudnn-cu12, nvidia-cusolver-cu12, confection, weasel, torch, thinc, stanza, spacy
━━━━━━━━━╸━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 11/46 [nvidia-nvshmem-c

u12]ERROR: Could not install packages due to an OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device

So get confused how could it really err with so code while the storage is ~49 GB free space
Please one generous to help out, thanks much in advance

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What does lsblk -f report?

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it was so from it, i just passed it there; it’s said 49 GB

NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
├─sda1 ntfs System Reserved A2EC2395EC236331
├─sda2 vfat EFI 0E18-1644 44.6M 55% /boot/efi
├─sda3
├─sda4 ntfs WIN 11 9642345642343CF5 208.5G 36% /run/media/abdu/WIN 11
├─sda5 swap 54e4ee0f-fe9b-4532-af58-f37ddb431229
├─sda6 ext4 fb9462f7-9005-4e50-a705-26d7915b34cf 2.4G 86% /
├─sda7 ext4 home 3948240c-9c25-472b-88b0-c35421811553 49.1G 46% /home
└─sda8 ext4 opt fb3d9c68-01cd-42c8-8756-ce47988e87bb 1.5G 68% /opt

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Fyi if you post as preformatted text, using the </> button, the white space is preserved.

Odd you have no /boot, which distro are you using?

Given you seem to have no issue with disk space I wonder if /tmp is the issue. How is /tmp setup on your system?

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From my understanding is, after the main Python is installed in a global dir, we install packages into the project directory with an active environment. Make the project directory, make the environment called “.venv”, then activate the environment with .venv\scripts\activate. Then we use pip in the project dir.

Did you do that?

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Of course, the doubt has nothing to do with point of problem

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The activate is optional, I never both with doing it. You can just run the python or pip that is in the venv directly to install packages.

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I think pip uses /tmp which in your case seems to fall under / which is only 2.4G.

This package depends on things like

torch-2.9.1-... (899.7 MB)
nvidia_cublas_cu12-12.8.4.1-... (594.3 MB)
nvidia_cudnn_cu12-9.10.2.21-... (706.8 MB)
nvidia_cufft_cu12-11.3.3.83-... (193.1 MB)
nvidia_cusolver_cu12-11.7.3.90-... (267.5 MB)
nvidia_cusparse_cu12-12.5.8.93-... (288.2 MB)
nvidia_cusparselt_cu12-0.7.1-... (287.2 MB)
nvidia_nccl_cu12-2.27.5-... (322.3 MB)

so I imagine that’s the problem.

Fix

export TMPDIR=~/tmp
pip install argostranslation