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Re: apt-get problems



On Wed, Jul 12, 2000 at 02:15:49PM +0200, Jens Luedicke wrote:
> Hi there ...
> 
> I messed up some files on my system and needed to
> reinstall everything again. When I was finished with
> all my packages I wanted to run "apt-get update".
> 
> apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing
> the lists, I got an error message:
> 
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!
> ...
> 
> What wrong here?

Looks suspiciously as if you're out of memory.  Not unlikely when trying
to install a mess of packages.  What's your memory situation look like?
Swap?

    $ free

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