Posts Tagged ‘apt-get’

HowTo: Completely Remove Debian Applications With apt-get

I have a testing server on which i fool around and test things.
I had to completely remove postfix from my server to reinstall it using other settings. Here’s how i did it :
apt-get –purge remove postfix
This will completely whipe out postfix from your server along with it’s dependencies.
I’ve been looking over for this for a [...]

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Howto: Increase apt-get’s cache limit

Dynamic MMap ran out of room
getting the above error means that your apt cache is out of space. This is solved simply by editing
/etc/apt/apt.conf or /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf and adding the following line :
APT::Cache-Limit “10000000″; ( this is equal to 10m, set it to whatever you want or need )
That’s it but remember that by increasing [...]

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