How to Install and Uninstall appstream Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: February 02,2025

You can also install and uninstall the appstream on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "appstream" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install appstream on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                appstream
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "appstream" package

Please follow the steps below to uninstall appstream on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                appstream
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the appstream package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: appstream
Version: 0.16.1-2
Installed-Size: 2502
Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Architecture: amd64
Depends: shared-mime-info, libappstream4 (>= 0.16.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62)
Suggests: apt-config-icons
Description: Software component metadata management
Description-md5: 7cf2fff1862d6e9404e1ca39507a24b4
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/appstream_0.16.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 406716
MD5sum: 5077f9b1209099e46bf2b3e46880a9e8
SHA256: 9461a31ce1cd607e902929e210053bff41a61e3230b251135a361266cbd34ef2