Re: error in apt updating to Sarge

[David Raleigh Arnold <darnold4@cox.net>]

On Sunday 21 November 2004 04:23 pm, Igor Arruza wrote:
> Hello
> I have installed Woody and i want to upgrade to Sarge.
> I put the sources but when i update i have this error
>
> Reading Package Lists....Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing po4a (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_testin_main_binary-i386_
>packages E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
>
> I thank all answers, thank you.

I went through this a while ago.  I think you need to increase your cache(?)
size, that is, the disk space apt allots for the packages.  See if you can
find the setting in apt.conf or something like that.

Upgrade apt first.  It's nasty but after that it's plain sailing.  daveA