I've now mentioned this in the specification. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#bug-438870>
Ideally, this shouldn't require any code changes to USC itself, just to aptdaemon and apt. USC should request every task immediately, if it doesn't do that already. apt should be able to do the concurrent downloads, then pause every task except for the one that's currently using dpkg. aptdaemon should be able to signal what's going on for every current task, and USC should just continue to reflect what aptdaemon tells it. Quite possibly, though, I don't know what I'm talking about and it's much more complicated than that... ** Description changed: - Binary package hint: software-center - - I was installing a few programs at once. When one of the programs was finished downloading it continued on to install the program. When that program finished it went on to download and install the next one and then went on to the next one after that. + I was installing a few programs at once. When one of the programs was finished downloading it continued on to install the program. When that program finished it went on to download and install the next one and then went on to the next one after that. It would save a lot of time if when the program is installing to start the download of the next. - - ProblemType: Bug - Architecture: amd64 - CheckboxSubmission: abe21d834f673fe2008fed64a377a809 - CheckboxSystem: 2e4ab5fb96eeb897d439b8ef1239668e - Date: Tue Sep 29 18:30:50 2009 - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10 - NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia - Package: software-center 0.4.3 - PackageArchitecture: all - ProcEnviron: - LANG=en_IE.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/bash - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic - SourcePackage: software-center - Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64 ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) => (unassigned) ** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Wishlist => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/438870 Title: Downloads should start when the previous one ends To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/aptdaemon/+bug/438870/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs