On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:23:51PM -0400, Will Ness wrote: > Dynamic MMap ran out of room (snip) > 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!
That would surprise me a bit, though you could be right. It should be
at /etc/apt/apt.conf and should be findable with for example:
find /etc -name apt.conf
> 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!
Add the following to the file /etc/apt/apt.conf or change any mention
of Cache-Limit in that file to this number. The exact number is
somewhat arbitrary, but this is how it is on my system and it works
fine so far. If this file doesn't exist yet, just create a new empty
file.
APT
{
Cache-Limit 20000000;
};
For more info on what you can put in this file, type:
man apt.conf
HTH,
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