RPM won't install package, complains about filesystem space

[Jeff Johnson]

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[Nathan (nathan-redhat-bugs)]

Description of problem:
When installing a 1.1G custom package, rpm complains there is not enough space on the filesystem. However, the system has more available capacity than it is asking for.

The one time I was able to install this rpm was to an unvirtualized workstation. I'm not sure if this is a virtualization related issue, but it fails consistently on the KVM and Virtualbox VMs I tested on.

[root@centos53-32 ~]# rpm -ivh nag2009-1-brown.i386.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
   installing package nag2009-1-brown.i386 needs 3269MB on the / filesystem
[root@centos53-32 ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                       14G 3.3G 9.2G 27% /
/dev/hda1 99M 12M 82M 13% /boot
tmpfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm

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[Nathan (nathan-redhat-bugs)]

I found the problem. That 1.1GB RPM uncompresses to over 12GB! RPM is reporting accurate statistics. This can be closed.