[NBLUG/talk] Using apt-get and unstable packages

[E Frank Ball]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 02:55:32PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
} 
} At the moment, my /etc/apt/sources.list file contains:
} 
} deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
} deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main
} deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
} 
} 
} I tried adding the following two lines:
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} deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
} deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
} 
} But when I did that and ran "apt-get update", I got the following
} output:
} 
} Fetched 3862kB in 37s (102kB/s)
} Reading Package Lists... Error!
} E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room!
} E: Error occured while processing kjots (NewVersion1)
} E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_dists_stable_updates_main_binary_i386_Packages
} E: The package lists or status files could not be parsed or opened.
} 
} So what the heck does that error mean?  How do I fix it?

A well known bug.  In your /etc/apt/apt.conf file add this line:
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;

That will get rid of the error.

To install a package from unstable use:
apt-get -t unstable install packagename

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com