topic title: apt-get update gives an error.
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#1
I tried...

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sudo apt-get update
and it gave me an error report towards the end. Can't understand what its trying to say really. Any help would be appreciated again.

Thanks a lot! __{{emoticon}}__

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Fetched 12.6MB in 2min 24s (87.3kB/s)                                                                                       
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room. Please increase the size of APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 20000000. (man 5 apt.conf)
E: Error occurred while processing avidemux-qt (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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anticapitalista
Posts: 5,956
Site Admin
Joined: 11 Sep 2007
#2
As root edit /etc/apt/apt.conf so APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 20000000. is 60000000

Also use
su
root password
apt-get update

rather than sudo

Oh and welcome to antiX.
Posts: 84
nujinini
Joined: 05 Jun 2010
#3
anticapitalista wrote:As root edit /etc/apt/apt.conf so APT::Cache-Limit. Current value: 20000000. is 60000000

Also use
su
root password
apt-get update

rather than sudo

Oh and welcome to antiX.
Thank you. It did the job. I was able to apt-get update with no hitches.

And thank you for the warm welcome! Hope I can learn a lot of things here too __{{emoticon}}__