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Re: how do i change to lenny?



Juha Tuuna wrote:
> raman narasimhan wrote:
>> i have installed debian from etch dvds. now i'd like to change to lenny
>> or sid how do i do it???
>> i tried adding the following line to sources.list
>>
>>
>> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main
>>
>>
>>
>> then in terminal i typed apt-get update; but i got error.. (pls see below)
>>
>> ...
>> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
>> E: Error occurred while processing roundcube-pgsql (NewVersion1)
>> E: Problem with MergeList
>> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-i386_Packages
>> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> 
> It looks like you don't have enough memory configured for apt, edit
> /etc/apt/apt.conf and add:
> APT::Cache-Limit "100000000";
> 
> Or some other "big" value ;)
> 
> Works for me.
Yes, it's official workaround.

Generally, when upgrading from Etch to Lenny, it's best to upgrade dpkg, apt
and aptitude firstly (apt-get install dpkg apt aptitude), and then do [dist-]
upgrade of the rest of system.

Regards,
-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor

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