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Originally Posted by Adrian
We are poor and can only use non-licensed cross-platform installers
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If I remember right your installer allows you to define the directory where to extract the data using the --temp option - at least that was what allowed me to install the game last time.
I think the best solution would be to set this option by default to the directory where the user actually wants to install the game and if for some reason you really need a different place for it
/var/tmp is a much better place than /tmp because /var/tmp has to be on the harddisc by posix definition and is supposed to be more consistent and useable for larger files than /tmp.
However extracting there 4,2GB is still a bit much and might be problematic but at least it is better than using /tmp which might be a tempfs (=storage in RAM) and in the future probably will be tempfs on most distros