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

Last updated: May 18,2024

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

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "appstream-compose" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install appstream-compose on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "appstream-compose" package

This is a short guide on how to uninstall appstream-compose on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


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

Package: appstream-compose
Source: appstream
Version: 0.16.1-2
Installed-Size: 111
Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: appstream (<< 0.15.2)
Depends: appstream, libappstream-compose0 (>= 0.16.1), libappstream4 (>= 0.15.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62)
Recommends: ffmpeg, optipng
Breaks: appstream (<< 0.15.2)
Description: Compose metadata catalogs from directory trees
Description-md5: b3a9d0f5abf91cbc1d139569f1ccc935
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/appstream-compose_0.16.1-2_amd64.deb
Size: 29532
MD5sum: c8e4eafea79e566eba88ed78babae20f
SHA256: 07ea51d0279a7e3fb35f857c321dae8d4e3636d984ee3be59a3d3003cc10913c