Ubuntu Feisty apt-get issue.
April 3, 2008
Recently when I was trying to install some new packages on my laptop, I got the below stated error:
vaibhav@vaibhav-laptop:~/web_dev/asp.net$ sudo apt-get install subversion
Password:
Reading package lists… Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing trn4 (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_dapper_multiverse_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
vaibhav@vaibhav-laptop:
Did some internet search on it but was helpless. Then finally one article stated that it might be a cache size issue for apt-get, and the resolution was to add the below line in /etc/apt/apt.conf, but that file was missing.
“APT::Cache-Limit “8388608″;
So here is how you can resolve the issue without the apt.conf file.
sudo apt-get update -o APT::Cache-Limit=8388608
-Bugs!
