Re: synaptic bombs!

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

Kjetil brinchmann Halvorsen <kjetil1001@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is debian testing, with recent updates.

> When starting synaptic, it explodes, with the following message:

> "E: Unable to increase the size of the MMap as the limit of 8388608 bytes
> is already reached.
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of
> APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 25165824. (man 5 apt.conf)

This suggests you may have added a number of repositories over and above
the standard set. You can either reduce the number, or do what it suggests
and increase the mmap size. Paste the following five lines into a
terminal, as root:

cat >/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/80cache-limit <<!
# Increase the cache limit from 8388608 bytes
#
APT::Cache-Limit "10000000";
!

Then run these two commands (also as root) and you should be able to
use synaptic again:

apt-get clean
apt-get update

Chris