Making /tmp temporarily bigger

["Bryan K. Walton" <walton@berbee.com>]

Hello everybody,
	I am trying to install StarOffice on a laptop running Debian 2.2.  I have run into a problem in that StarOffice needs to utilize the /tmp directory and there doesn't seem to be enough space for it.  I don't have anything in there taking up the space, it seems that the problem is that the directory just isn't big enough.  So, I thought, "OK, I will symlink the /tmp directory to another directory" but I am having trouble.  On the computer in question, /tmp is off of the root partition (/dev/hda5).  It appears that Debian won't allow me to symlink the /tmp directroy to someplace else.  I tried:
ln -s /usr/local /tmp
But that didn't work.  That simulates the /usr/local directory as a directory inside (ie: /tmp/local/  
What I need is /tmp=/usr/local but when I type:
ln -s /usr/local / 
Debian won't let me do that.  Any suggestions for making more space for /tmp?

Thanks,
Bryan Walton