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

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:12:05AM +0000, Adam Robson wrote:
> 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 10000000 or some big number, but this file doesn't appear 
> in that directory.  Is there some other way to fix the problem, using 
> apt-config or something?
> 
> Thanks
> A

Just create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf using your favourite text
editor (or use echo).  Alternately, create a file in
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d which contains the directive.

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Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
  We're sysadmins. To us, data is a protocol-overhead.