problem with apt-get update- E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

While trying to run apt-get update or dselect I get the error E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room I've created the file /etc/apt/apt.conf with contents APT::Cache-Limit 25165824, and I've reduced my sources.list to only one entry, deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main, and this hasn't sol

Re: dynamic MMap ran out of room.. changing apt.conf file has no effect

While trying to update or download using apt-get or dselect, i get the error message E: dynamic MMap ran out of room and so on.. Creating the file /etc/apt/apt.conf, with contents APT::Cache-Limit 25165824 has no effect. I should have mentioned a couple other things: 1. I have only 8MB of RA

dynamic MMap ran out of room.. no apt.conf file?

While trying to download using apt-get or dselect or tasksel, i get the error message E: dynamic MMap ran out of room I've read the solution is to change the /etc/apt/apt.conf file with APT::Cache-Limit 1000 or some big number, but this file doesn't appear in that directory. Is there some