On Friday 12 Apr 2013, Claudius Hubig wrote: > Dear David, > > David Goodenough wrote: > > I have a PcEngines WRAP board, which has 64MB of memory and a CF disk. > > > > Unpacking replacement traceroute ... > > dpkg-deb (subprocess): decompressing archive member: lzma error: Cannot > > allocate memory > > dpkg-deb: error: subprocess <decompress> returned error exit status 2 > > Any ideas? > > If nothing else helps, you could try to use a temporary swap file. > While not perfect for the lifetime of the CF card and probably > horribly slow, it’s better than nothing. Yes that works, but it is not something I would want to do repeatedly to the CF. It does seem odd that such tiny DEBs need such a large amount of memory to uncompress them.
David > > Best, > > Claudius