On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:23 -0400, Will Ness wrote:
> Hello List!!
>
> I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works
> except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very
> end it says:
>
> Error....!
> Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>
> (Package name)
>
> Package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
> ___________________________________________________
>
> I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache
> memory limit needed to be expanded/checked/corrected. Others who gave
> a solution suggested to look in and edit apt.conf. One problem, I did
> not have, or cannot find this file! I have done some extensive
> searching ( to the best of my ability as a Linux newbie) and I am at a
> loss as to where to find this file or what to do next. Should I create
> it? Where does apt keep its config files?? I did check
> /etc/apt/apt.conf.d and all I got was a file called 70debconf. What do
> I do to solve this!? Your help would be very much appreciated right
> now. Thank you!
# cp /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf /etc/apt/
edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and add
Cache-Limit "100000000"
inside the APT braces.
(ie.)
APT
{
// Options for apt-get
Get
{
Download-Only "false";
};
Cache-Limit "100000000"
};
-matt zagrabelny
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