Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Matthias Szupryczynski <silk_worm@gmx.net>]

On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 11:30, martin f krafft wrote:
> apt-get update gives me this 
> 
>   Reading Package Lists... Error!
>   E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>   E: Error occured while processing texinfo (NewFileVer1)
>   E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
>   E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> what to do?

Looks like you have to increase the size of your apt-cache.

Go to /etc/apt/apt.conf, and add the line 'APT::Cache-Limits xxx', where
xxx is the desirable size in bytes. Choose something like 12 or 24 M
( which would be 12582912 or 25165824 in bytes).

Hope that helps

Matt