Some apt-get problems
I am trying this again with a decent subject line. Sorry
about that.
Phil
>
> I am having troubles trying to upgrade to potato using
> apt-get. I enter 'apt-get update' and get the following:
>
> Fetched 445kB in 2m16s (3269B/s)
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing lwm (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/state/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_frozen_main_binary-i386_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or
> opened.
>
> I have already done this several times before now and even
> have a /var/cache/apt/packages full of 191 megabytes of
> uninstalled packages. The 'apt-get dist-upgrade' earlier
> gave up after not being able to download a package I never
> requested. All attempts to force install the rest have been
> unsuccessful. The packages that won't download are libpam
> runtime and modules. So how do I force install the other
> stuff?
>
> Phil B.
>
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