How I fixed this. http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/debian-linux-help/51937-aptitude-problem-problem-mergelist.html Do the following. sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf Back it up first of course. This may not be necessary but you must understand these are the steps I took. Next do sudo apt-get update This updates the list folder. If you get the following error E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
Its time to edit the config file for apt. Ubuntu users can find this in the following location. /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf Add the following line. APT::Cache-Limit "118388608"; Big number. It started off without the first two digits but I kept getting the same error this fixed it. No more core dumps. Fire up synaptic. Bang what now? apt-get -f install synaptic Response in English your libraries are out of date and your nuts are in a vice try running apt-get -f install on it's own. This did however work. apt-get -f install synaptic Response well it worked. Synaptic now works without error. You should do an apt-get autoclean as theres a lot of stuff that needs to be cleared out. Warning always take care when removing files on a live system. This machine has bucket loads of space so reinstalling and moving data to a fresh install does not bother me. -- apt-get and apt-cache Segmentation fault (core dumped) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/113424 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
