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Ubuntu 9.10 Ubuntu Software Center problem

Asked by roxat

I just installed Ubuntu 9.10, and I started to use the new "ubuntu software center" to install some software. Much to my chagrin, I found that I could not select and install several software packages at once. The only way that I can install software packages is one-at-a-time. UGH!

Is this correct? There seems to be no way to select several software packages, and install all of them.

With the previous Ubuntu and its "Add-Remove Software", I could select and install as many different software packages as I wanted to.

If this is true, then that is a big mistake. Fooey to whomever designed this new software. Ubuntu Software Center is not an improvement at all! I guess I will have to only use Synaptic Package Manager in the future.

Give me back the old "Add-Remove Programs"!

roxat

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Vu Do Quynh (vu-do-quynh) said : 		#1

Once you have started to install one software, you can just start choosing an other one and proceed with its installation.

The difference with before (Add/remove...): you would choose several software and install them in a bunch, now you choose one software and install it and then choose an other one and install it and so on BUT you do not have to wait for one software to have finished its installation before choosing an other one and start installing it.

I agree that the older way was faster but sometimes you need to read carefully the description and evaluate whether you have to install this software or not which seems to me the path chosen for karmic.

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