How to Install and Uninstall appstream-generator Package on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Last updated: November 07,2024

1. Install "appstream-generator" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install appstream-generator on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)


    
        
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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

This is a short guide on how to uninstall appstream-generator on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri):


    
        
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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 21.10 (Impish Indri)

Package: appstream-generator
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.8.5-1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 3071
Depends: libjs-highlight.js, libjs-jquery-flot, libappstream-compose0 (>= 0.14.5), libappstream4 (>= 0.14.5), libarchive13 (>= 3.2.1), libc6 (>= 2.34), 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)
Recommends: ffmpeg, optipng
Filename: pool/universe/a/appstream-generator/appstream-generator_0.8.5-1_amd64.deb
Size: 757236
MD5sum: 7fa1468f0646e913f7192028e104acbc
SHA1: 1b87501a32b1097ada8161d65d477c727d0e474c
SHA256: a305486db8f60fd79ee6c2b7e3934d095061414f45f9409e1834b82dece6f599
SHA512: cad9643ebad06a09dbd474b3a92159afc76b4f468cd062415469e71447705fc73ead24e79d94c210030e91f929e24eb87c499bfbbbde5e1db45e4114388e74f5
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