[all] navit install problems

[Robin Paulson]

2009/7/6 Christ van Willegen <cvwillegen at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jeffrey
> Ratcliffe<jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It works if you set up a swapfile.
>
> Having to set up a swap file for an .ipk file of 3M in size still
> seems unreasonable...

the ipk i installed was over 5MB - i presume it expands to some huge
size and is stored in ram. i tried the --tmpdir switch (which i
assumed would unpack it straight to disk rather than to ram) but that
didn't help at all