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. 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. Here's the entry I put in the sources file (that's probably the problem):
It probably works. (Fetched 3053kB in 18s (164kB/s) means something worked.) Make sure the testing line in /etc/apt/sources.list was added, and that the stable line still exists. (If you removed the stable line, everything will want to be upgraded.)
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_packagesE: Package lists or status fie could not be parsed or openedI 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.Thank You in Advance,David Bokan
/etc/apt/apt.conf // Created by Douglas Ward 11 September 2002 APT::Architecture "i386"; // This gets rid of the need for pinning lines APT::Default-Release "stable"; // This fixes E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room APT::Cache-Limit 16777216;