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In centos when installing package yum install <package> it didn't work & throws the error as Cannot create temporary file - mkstemp: No such file or directory

Kiruthika kanagarajan
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May be you could have deleted your /tmp directory mkdir -p /tmp/mkstempc resolves the problem.

Kiruthika kanagarajan
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I had a similar issue.

Discovered that my environment variable TMP was set to ~/tmp . As root, dnf didn't like that. so I

$ unset TMP

Then (CentOS stream 8) 'dnf install <package>' worked fine.

For more background, a similar question was asked, but no specific resolution: https://serverfault.com/questions/1030768/linux-error-creating-temporary-file-var-tmp

Iain4D
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  • Could also be a full /tmp directory. In that case, Check /tmp for anything which could be removed. Here is some more background information: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/277387/tab-completion-errors-bash-cannot-create-temp-file-for-here-document-no-space – Iain4D Sep 06 '21 at 21:51