Can't download ROS-Melodic-Desktop-Full on Ubuntu (No space left on device)

Question

I'm trying to download ROS-Melodic-Desktop-Full on Ubuntu 18.04 using Oracle VM and when I run the command to download it fills up my root drive and runs out of space. I'm new to this and I can't figure it out. I'm following the steps right and I have checked off the right boxes in software and updates too. Am I missing something??? [unable to flush /var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp.i after padding: No space left on device 1 <---- Photo provided here

Answer 1

The full ROS install should be a little over 2Gb; this is not including additional dependencies. If you look at how much storage you've allocated to your VM, it's only ~2.4Gb; thus is actually is filling the hard drive.

You simply need to allocate more storage/provide a larger VHD to your actual virtual machine.