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pib712
June 24th, 2009, 06:16 PM
Hi, I just tried to start up Synaptic and got the following error message:

E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
E: Error occurred while processing libfli-dev (NewVersion1)
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/uk.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_jaunty_universe _binary-i386_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

When trying to install a package from the terminal with apt-get, I get the same message. I've searched around and there's some similar problems which seem to have vastly different solutions. To my knowledge I've not recently installed any packages or updates that could have caused this - it seems to have just come out of nowhere. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.

pib712
June 25th, 2009, 05:46 PM
Never mind - seems it's solved now. I just used "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get install -f". Should have been among the first things I tried really.