Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

[Will Ness <wilderness48@gmail.com>]

Hello List!!

I have an old laptop that I installed debian on. Everything works
except apt!! Everytime I run apt, it does its thing but at the very
end it says:

Error....!
Dynamic MMap ran out of room

(Package name)

Package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened
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I did some googling and got the general response that my Apt cache
memory limit needed to be expanded/checked/corrected. Others who gave
a solution suggested to look in and edit apt.conf. One problem, I did
not have, or cannot find this file! I have done some extensive
searching ( to the best of my ability as a Linux newbie) and I am at a
loss as to where to find this file or what to do next. Should I create
it? Where does apt keep its config files?? I did check
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d and all I got was a file called 70debconf. What do
I do to solve this!? Your help would be very much appreciated right
now. Thank you!

-Will