How to Install and Uninstall appstream Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "appstream" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install appstream on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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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 package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: appstream
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.12.11-1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 216
Provides: appstream-index
Depends: shared-mime-info, libappstream4 (>= 0.12.9), libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.58)
Suggests: apt-config-icons
Breaks: appstream-index (<< 0.12.11-1), gnome-software (<< 3.22.5-1), plasma-discover (<< 5.8.5-3)
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/appstream_0.12.11-1_amd64.deb
Size: 38688
MD5sum: 9fd6f93f259993e6a885578762aa108e
SHA1: 8a259beed3ef194609e4c5a23fb46018a6ab6ed6
SHA256: 7c86551287fc947afd85d9dc8e2bc5dce8b99d3652c27f2252f4065cc00fe9ba
SHA512: 385661143a468f227dbf66575ac7256de99ee82708e515ba3597ecaae41751a43fe2277e8b910ff57ce6a3bce34e993c03c44ed505fb7649a9a99272497952a9
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Description-en: Software component metadata management
AppStream is a metadata specification, allowing to write metadata for
software projects in a standardized format.
It provides facilities to easily access and transform the data, as well
as a few additional services to allow building feature-rich software center
applications.
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This package provides tools to generate, maintain and query the AppStream
data pool of installed and available software, and enables integration
with the APT package manager.
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The 'appstreamcli' tool can be used for accessing the software component
pool as well as for working with AppStream metadata directly, including
validating it for compliance with the specification.
Description-md5: 6dd88e1f82260435137249a5504e5e81
Task: ubuntu-desktop-minimal, ubuntu-desktop, kubuntu-desktop, xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop-core, ubuntustudio-desktop, ubuntu-budgie-desktop