[Techtalk] apt-get problem - help!

[jennyw]

You might try doing apt-get clean, then running apt-get update and
apt-get dist-upgrade to bring everything up to date before trying to
install again.

Jen

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:06:35AM +1000, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> I am getting the following error when I attempt to run
> apt-get update
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing libcgi-fast-perl (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/dpkg/status
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
> 
> Is there some way of preventing this?  It happened to me before, and I
> reduced the number of package-sites it was reading, but now it's come
> back again, and I really would prefer a better workaround than losing
> information.
> 
> Kathryn Andersen
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