I got an error
“E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room”
trying to sort out that
its being becoz my /var is filling out
so moved
/var/cache/apt/archives to my other hard drive…
now i need to perform a clean up
apt-get clean
But didnt helped……..again got it like this
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing notification-daemon-xfce (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
This is caused because apt’s cache is too small to handle all of the packages that are included.
Adding the following line to /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Cache-Limit "20000000";
solved the problem
Installing from unstable repositories
Here is a good page about Apt
http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html
Im using Debian Etch and i wanted to install from new versions of Debian Sid, &Lenny
Before beginning make sure that your sources.lst have appropriate new repositories
Acording to above page there are two ways .. Here is the commands
1. apt-get install <package>/unstable
This will install the unstable version of the package, and try to meet any dependencies from Stable. This may not work, but it will tell you why
2. apt-get -t unstable install <package>
This will install the Unstable version of the package, and try to meet any dependencies from Unstable. This may produce better results.
I installed Open Movie Editor using this method it worked but it removed my kerenel headers