Re: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!!!

[Matt Zagrabelny <mzagrabe@d.umn.edu>]

On Wed, 2005-07-20 at 14:23 -0400, Will Ness wrote:
> 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
> ___________________________________________________
> 
> 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!

# cp /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf /etc/apt/

edit /etc/apt/apt.conf and add

Cache-Limit "100000000"

inside the APT braces.
(ie.)

APT
{
  // Options for apt-get
  Get
  {
     Download-Only "false";
  };

  Cache-Limit "100000000"

};

-matt zagrabelny