[ALUG] apt-get error: Dynamic MMap ran out of room

[Brett Parker]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 08:08:30AM +0100, sagr wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 24, 2007 8:30 AM, Brett Paker wrote:
> >What's the contents of the /etc/debian_version file? ;)
> 
> zebra:/etc# cat debian_version
> 3.0
> 
> >MMap is memory allocation, not disk space - add the following like to
> >/etc/apt/apt.conf (create the file if it doesn't exist):
> >
> >APT::Cache-Limit "20000000";
> >
> >And that should get it working.
> 
> Excellent!  Thanks for that! apt-get now runs!  Unfortunately however
> apt-get has now hit another problem when trying to install geneweb:

Err, woah! That's, err, woody. That's really quite old... when I say
really quite old, I mean there's no longer security support for that,
it's the release before "oldstable" (sarge)... you'll probably find that
your package list is trying to pick up stable and that's why "strange"
things are happening.

I'd be tempted, at this point, to say either (a) get someone that knows
to upgrade the machine - probably outside of office hours or (b) install
geneweb elsewhere (still, you'll want someone to upgrade the machine
sometime soon!)

Cheers,
-- 
Brett Parker