help on apt-get howto

[Etienne Grossmann <etienne@isr.isr.ist.utl.pt>]

  Hello,

this mail is to ask about the correctness of the part of the apt-get
howto [1] that deals w/ the error "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room".


  The proposed text is :

======================================================================

  If you receive the error "E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room" when
  running apt-get update, this is due to <short description here>. To
  fix this problem, you may try doing

    apt-get clean

  If that doesn't work, you may increase the size of the cache by
  putting in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf or in /etc/apt/apt.conf
  (this file takes precedence over 70debconf) a line like :

     APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;

  The present value of APT::Cache-Limit can be known by doing :

     apt-config dump

  Another way to fix the problem is to suppress useless lines in
  /etc/apt/sources.list, so that apt-get doesn't have to handle a too
  big database of packages.

======================================================================

  Questions :

1) What should the <short description> explaining the error be?

2) Can each of the three (apt-get clean, modif apt.conf and modif
   sources.list) fix the error? (only the last two work for me).

3) What is the config file?  /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf or
   /etc/apt/apt.conf? Any issues of which release is used?

4) What value for cache limit?


  Cheers and thanks for the nice work,

  Etienne

[1] www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-erros.en.html#s-erros-comuns


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