Juha Tuuna wrote: > raman narasimhan wrote: >> i have installed debian from etch dvds. now i'd like to change to lenny >> or sid how do i do it??? >> i tried adding the following line to sources.list >> >> >> deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main >> >> >> >> then in terminal i typed apt-get update; but i got error.. (pls see below) >> >> ... >> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room >> E: Error occurred while processing roundcube-pgsql (NewVersion1) >> E: Problem with MergeList >> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_lenny_main_binary-i386_Packages >> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > > It looks like you don't have enough memory configured for apt, edit > /etc/apt/apt.conf and add: > APT::Cache-Limit "100000000"; > > Or some other "big" value ;) > > Works for me. Yes, it's official workaround.
Generally, when upgrading from Etch to Lenny, it's best to upgrade dpkg, apt and aptitude firstly (apt-get install dpkg apt aptitude), and then do [dist-] upgrade of the rest of system. Regards, -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian APT contributor
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