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

Last updated: December 23,2024

1. Install "appstream-generator" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install appstream-generator on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)


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

Learn how to uninstall appstream-generator on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                appstream-generator
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the appstream-generator package on Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo)

Package: appstream-generator
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8.3-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3568
Depends: libjs-highlight.js, libjs-jquery-flot, libappstream-compose0 (>= 0.14.0), libappstream4 (>= 0.14.0), libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.17), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.39.2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.0), libglibd-2.0-0 (>= 2.3.0), liblmdb0 (>= 0.9.7), libphobos2-ldc-shared94 (>= 1:1.24.0), libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.41.90)
Recommends: ffmpeg, optipng
Filename: pool/universe/a/appstream-generator/appstream-generator_0.8.3-1_amd64.deb
Size: 742960
MD5sum: 132683369710780866e5f455949b9872
SHA1: 9b694f674c101335fe319b9e5a4c6d077d8e5ed2
SHA256: 4c7128898ef210ee3d648ed3ba5335402a316543d569284363b58928f1396b33
SHA512: d67a99e62cb1f968c6305864d5f9830c4371bcb29524ad18d6e7397b056985cbed94dcf325cfc74cfa5571141b796a7eb00791e46ad41f99cab74450e09a83a1
Homepage: https://github.com/ximion/appstream-generator
Description-en: Generator for AppStream metadata
AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for creating and sharing
metadata of software components available in the package repositories
of a distribution.
It provides specifications for an unified software component metadata format
as well as tools to read, write and validate the metadata.
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This package contains a tool to generate collection metadata from package
repositories.
It will extract icons, download screenshots, validate and transform the
metadata and return XML or YAML files that can be read by AppStream clients,
such as software centers.
The `appstream-generator` tool will also generate issue reports as
JSON documents and HTML pages.
Description-md5: 02b61773cddba34acabc22d74fb489a9