How to Install and Uninstall appstream Package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Last updated: May 07,2024

1. Install "appstream" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install appstream on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


    
        
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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 guidelines below to uninstall appstream on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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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 Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: appstream
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.14.1-1
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 272
Provides: appstream-index
Depends: shared-mime-info, libappstream4 (>= 0.14.0), libc6 (>= 2.4), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.58)
Suggests: apt-config-icons
Breaks: appstream-index (<< 0.14.1-1), gnome-software (<< 3.22.5-1), plasma-discover (<< 5.8.5-3)
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/appstream_0.14.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 49472
MD5sum: 8b24268f926aa05c9a837a452592f353
SHA1: 112364b560306474430d0e2f2487b40d4b9fde6c
SHA256: 6de6318d3cee4e4b4d470f5ac04c14ca3e7712c0bb6992160dc386688bda55d8
SHA512: 7b18f41c187e869b85bbdd21c84a5dd4c9e11f9adc568a33044edffdab476365148546e0aedc41c0c75395a78fe23b3ed76b2ec9cee2f20ec90ad699e4650a21
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Description-en: Software component metadata management
AppStream is a metadata specification which permits software components to
provide information about themselves to automated systems and end-users
before the software is actually installed.
The AppStream project provides facilities to easily access and transform
this metadata, as well as a few additional services to allow building
feature-rich software centers and similar 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: 7cf2fff1862d6e9404e1ca39507a24b4
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