Can't seem to install packages anymore on NSLU2

Everything has been working ok for a month or so... but as of today, I don't seem to be able to install anything. Now it just fails as shown below. I also tried to install gcc, which produced the same type of failure. I have not been able to find anything similar using web searches or searches of this site. Any ideas for a newbie???

DEB-NSLU2-1:~# apt-get install make
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
make-doc-non-dfsg
The following NEW packages will be installed:
make
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/381kB of archives.
After unpacking 1229kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/make_3.81-2_arm.deb (--unpack):
malloc failed (232001083 bytes): Cannot allocate memory
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/make_3.81-2_arm.deb
Processing was halted because there were too many errors.
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
DEB-NSLU2-1:~#