Re: Help using Apt-Get
On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:19:32PM -0400, David Bokan wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am new to Debian (three or so days now) I have a question, I'm using
> the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to get KDE3 (and some
> other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to get packages
> from the testing release, however, I am unsure of how to do this.
Upgrade to sarge (testing), if that's what you want.
> I googled it and found something about Pinning and followed the
> instructions (created a preferences file and put some stuff in there)
> and it doesn't work.
Pinning is more or less useless. You should *never* use it unless you
really know what you're doing.
> Here's the entry I put in the sources file
> (that's probably the problem):
>
> deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main
>
> However, when I run 'apt-get update' here's the result:
>
> Fetched 3053kB in 18s (164kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E:
> Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occurred whie processing
> python-egenix-mxstack (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/
> debian.yorku.ca_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_packages E:
> Package lists or status fie could not be parsed or opened
That's a VFAQ:
http://www.google.com/search?q=mmap%20ran%20out%20of%20room%20apt-get
> I have no idea what any of that means...speaking of which, if someone
> wouldn't mind explaining the format of the sources.list file (the man
> page is unclear to me) I would be greatly appreciative.
man sources.list
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