On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:19:32PM -0400, David Bokan wrote: > Hello all, > > I am new to Debian (three or so days now) I have a question, I'm using > the Woody release of Debian (3.0) and I want to get KDE3 (and some > other recent packages) but in order to do that I have to get packages > from the testing release, however, I am unsure of how to do this.
Upgrade to sarge (testing), if that's what you want. > I googled it and found something about Pinning and followed the > instructions (created a preferences file and put some stuff in there) > and it doesn't work. Pinning is more or less useless. You should *never* use it unless you really know what you're doing. > Here's the entry I put in the sources file > (that's probably the problem): > > deb http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/ testing main > > However, when I run 'apt-get update' here's the result: > > Fetched 3053kB in 18s (164kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Error! E: > Dynamic MMap ran out of room E: Error occurred whie processing > python-egenix-mxstack (NewVersion1) E: Problem with MergeList > /var/lib/apt/lists/ > debian.yorku.ca_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-i386_packages E: > Package lists or status fie could not be parsed or opened That's a VFAQ: http://www.google.com/search?q=mmap%20ran%20out%20of%20room%20apt-get > I have no idea what any of that means...speaking of which, if someone > wouldn't mind explaining the format of the sources.list file (the man > page is unclear to me) I would be greatly appreciative. man sources.list -- You win again, gravity! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
