How to Install and Uninstall appstream Package on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Last updated: May 08,2024

1. Install "appstream" package

In this section, we are going to explain the necessary steps to install appstream on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)


    
        
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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 instructions below to uninstall appstream on Ubuntu 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur):


    
        
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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 23.10 (Mantic Minotaur)

Package: appstream
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.16.2-1
Multi-Arch: foreign
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 308
Depends: shared-mime-info, libappstream4 (>= 0.16.0), libc6 (>= 2.34), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.75.3)
Suggests: apt-config-icons
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/appstream_0.16.2-1_amd64.deb
Size: 65958
MD5sum: 6dba79da8d26bb5be78d4eb1b67790af
SHA1: 2bda9e862fbade0e9813941838e724de2a380113
SHA256: cb450e9ac7c13d74fd43bf905716e555f97064cdb8d50c17255062d11ee82b47
SHA512: 5e038bd4ae29dff7286764a0eb6c882801f15e32931b7d5b84bdb706336b4dd932905891c573f5a1a7d4cc1bde78eeace9dd3b60a70b9c67ab4d2b76f57a716f
Homepage: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Description: Software component metadata management
Description-md5: 7cf2fff1862d6e9404e1ca39507a24b4
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