apt-get error

[Don Armstrong]

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Tom Simons wrote:
> # apt-get check
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

Increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit in /etc/apt/apt.conf; something like

APT::Cache-Limit 10000000; # or larger

will help. [It's supposed to increase itself to be large enough, but
old versions of apt-get don't do it, and you also may have an
inordinately large number of sources.]

Don Armstrong

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