Frodo Baggins wrote: > >> I messed up some files on my system and needed to > >> reinstall everything again. When I was finished with > >> all my packages I wanted to run "apt-get update". > >> > >> apt-get fetched all the lists but when it was reading/parsing > >> the lists, I got an error message: > >> > >> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room! >
> It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I Yes, because it has happened during apt-get update, and not during upgrade. > Well, I did it. I even allocated 128Mb, just to be on the sure > side. But during istallation it crashed. Infact, apt uses a > subdirectory of /var to put packages dowloaded but not yet installed > and at installation time you need a lot of packages. > > Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: > > make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of > unused space after your installation is complete, or > > don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / > partition and let the system use the space as it needs. Or just download the packages before installing them. --papt