Another installation problem

[eKross]

My computer is very low on space on drive C:\ so the installation fails when uncompressing the files.
The only way i could get more space would be to take drastic measures and uninstall something important.

[Ofnuts]

Nothing much that Gimp can do... or do you assume it comes with a built-in disk cleaner?

You can likely tell Gimp to install on some other disk (if you have such). Otherwise there are plenty of way to recover disk space on Windows: removing update rollback points, purging the temp directories and the varoius web caches...

[eKross]

(05-06-2018, 07:12 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: Nothing much that Gimp can do... or do you assume it comes with a built-in disk cleaner?

You can likely tell Gimp to install on some other disk (if you have such). Otherwise there are plenty of way to recover disk space on Windows: removing update rollback points, purging the temp directories and the varoius web caches...

I mean it won't let me even get to the point where i can choose the installation folder.

https://prnt.sc/jeimdw
^Picture of the error


The temporary location for uncompressing the installation files itself requires more space than is available. Or atleast that's what i assume is the problem.

[Ofnuts]

The message is Out of memory not Insufficient disk space. So you are short on RAM, or the system is swapping virtual memory to disk but thre is no space on the disk either.

This said, even if you manage to install Gimp, the system seems so short on resources that you aren't likely to be able to use it...

[eKross]

(05-06-2018, 10:27 PM)Ofnuts Wrote: The message is Out of memory not Insufficient disk space. So you are short on RAM, or the system is swapping virtual memory to disk but thre is no space on the disk either.

This said, even if you manage to install Gimp, the system seems so short on resources that you aren't likely to be able to use it...

I have 16gb of RAM, and not even half of it is being used.
I'm very certain it's the space on drive C:\

This is rarely a problem.

Suppose i could use some of those janky softwares to force extending drive space, even after the partitioning.
Just wanted to say this can be an issue, and it'd be avoidable if the installer wasn't packaged like this, say it downloaded the files during the setup to a place of your choice, or uncompressed the files to a place of your choice, or wasn't compressed at all, but that obviously would be a waste.

Stupid me went and uninstalled my previous installation drooling after the new UI, and now i have no gimp at all. Kick on the teeth this one.

Edit: For some reason the installation works now? I changed nothing. How much ram does the installer allocate? I feel so stupid now.

[Ofnuts]

I don't think the installer requires that much RAM...