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Why can't APT install more than one application at a time? Why does it need to exit before installing the next. I know with MS Windows you can install how many application at once. This problem is not unique to Ubuntu but to all distros, that I have notice.


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That's because each package has specific details about how it can be installed.



Post-processing for a package sometimes has follow up (symlinking, documentation generation, et cetera). Such processing may pre-depend on other processes having completed.



This isn't a Linux flaw. It's a "computation" flaw. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem).



No package manager can determine if it's successfully installed the dependencies shy of actually trying to install. Windows is not immune from this.


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