Issues Installing Packages to SD Card

D R

Hi,

I've been trying to install some packages to the SD card.
I found a tutorial for opkg on how to do it and added /tmp/mounts/SD-P1 as a dest in the opkg.conf file.

dest sd /tmp/mounts/SD-P1

Now I can issue the command:
opkg --dest sd <package> which seems to work but at the end of installation opkg reports:
cannot create symlink <package specific symlinks> operation not permitted

Afterwards I can't run the program presumably because the symlinks failed to be created. For example running:
python /tmp/mounts/SD-P1/test.py
results in python: not found.

I tried reinstalling the packages but during the reinstallation it doesn't report the symlink errors but the programs still won't run.

Does anyone have any ideas how to do this?

Thanks.

Luciano S.

I would say you have to use your sd card as boot device. Then the programs will be stored also on the sd card.
https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/boot-from-external-storage.html