How to Install and Uninstall appstream Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: February 03,2025

You can also install and uninstall the appstream on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "appstream" package

Here is a brief guide to show you how to install appstream on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "appstream" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to uninstall appstream on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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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 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

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