How to Install and Uninstall appstream Package on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "appstream" package

Please follow the instructions below to install appstream on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia)


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

This tutorial shows how to uninstall appstream on Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia):


    
        
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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 Linux Mint 21.3 (Virginia)

Package: appstream
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.15.2-2
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 296
Depends: shared-mime-info, libappstream4 (>= 0.15.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.62)
Suggests: apt-config-icons
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/appstream_0.15.2-2_amd64.deb
Size: 60880
MD5sum: 0033d06047a6ed5d24169393bda113de
SHA1: 20131216e557223ca54a3a16a42d2ee7cf8efc8f
SHA256: f25ae55885d50e46cbc02cfa82339b84153baffa8d11637602ce5f1cce813a9d
SHA512: af3689156ffb516a314d06fec5d16b541fcd6f561f47ec4d3d4429bda415c30657c81960cf5ca2d3923fa9429360f0adbcfc961717a0f0683821d8fdd07e7c9f
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Description: Software component metadata management
Description-md5: 7cf2fff1862d6e9404e1ca39507a24b4
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop-raspi