Ok folks, first, sorry if my english is not very good.
Im testing the new Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, well, that's not the point, the point is that a realized a time ago that when im installing something I can't install other thing, I need to wait to install the first thing after installing the other.

An example, I entered in a terminal "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras" in order to get the restricted extras. Later in another terminal I entered "sudo apt-get install fping" and I got the next message:


E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

My question is: Can I install, use or do something in order to install many things at the same time?

Thank you

You can put them all on the same line, one after another, like this:
and so on, just put a space between the packages.

Angel.

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You need to wait a few moments for the lock on the previous instance of dpkg to release. But unless I want to override a policy, such as remove individual games or utility front ends without removing the entire desktop GUI, I just use synaptic or dselect.

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just an add on to what's already been said, and I know it wasn't what was asked but...

Its a good idea to run sudo apt-get update before running install, you can just do this all in one command:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install fping apache2 mysql ubuntu-restricted-extras

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