From b1b0f47eaa37ee163691ab7108d6a119dc8814e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "CanbiZ (MickLesk)" <47820557+MickLesk@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2026 15:23:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Set TMPDIR for pip to use disk during install (#10559)

---
 install/paperless-ai-install.sh | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/install/paperless-ai-install.sh b/install/paperless-ai-install.sh
index 0d53d632f..b51717e98 100644
--- a/install/paperless-ai-install.sh
+++ b/install/paperless-ai-install.sh
@@ -37,8 +37,12 @@ msg_info "Setup Paperless-AI"
 cd /opt/paperless-ai
 $STD python3 -m venv /opt/paperless-ai/venv
 source /opt/paperless-ai/venv/bin/activate
+# TMPDIR to use container disk instead of tmpfs for large pip downloads (https://github.com/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/issues/10338)
+export TMPDIR=/opt/paperless-ai/tmp
+mkdir -p "$TMPDIR"
 $STD pip install --upgrade pip
 $STD pip install --no-cache-dir -r requirements.txt
+rm -rf "$TMPDIR"
 mkdir -p data/chromadb
 $STD npm ci --only=production
 mkdir -p /opt/paperless-ai/data