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.