# Installation fails (on Ubuntu 22) when using instruction (via curl): \`curl: (23) Failure writing output to destination\`

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I have some vague memory of running into problems with the `/tmp` directory under ubuntu.

You might want to try changing your configuration to use a `tmp` directory in your user directory e.g. `~/tmp`

Think you would do `mkdir ~/tmp` and then `export TMPDIR=~/tmp`.

It’s a while since I’ve had to do this so hope I’m not sending you off in the wrong direction, but perhaps worth a shot if nothing else is working.

edit: `TMPDIR` works with debian and the `mktemp` command rather than `TEMP`

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