How to Install and Uninstall gir1.2-appstream Package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Last updated: May 19,2024

1. Install "gir1.2-appstream" package

This tutorial shows how to install gir1.2-appstream on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

$ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install gir1.2-appstream

2. Uninstall "gir1.2-appstream" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall gir1.2-appstream on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):

$ sudo apt remove gir1.2-appstream $ sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove

3. Information about the gir1.2-appstream package on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus)

Package: gir1.2-appstream
Architecture: amd64
Version: 0.9.4-1ubuntu4
Priority: optional
Section: introspection
Source: appstream
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 46
Depends: gir1.2-freedesktop (>= 1.32), gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 1.46), libappstream3 (= 0.9.4-1ubuntu4)
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/gir1.2-appstream_0.9.4-1ubuntu4_amd64.deb
Size: 9534
MD5sum: 44d77305f07c28d051f37bbd6f09359d
SHA1: 4e544e5dd961b4605367d329da783af712e62150
SHA256: 38ade40212af21ffad7292f73b9ffe076414ca3c6d699e3259ba28ea90f3f992
SHA512: 18c18071dc2e12172f19b9f8cb58492baefd9859a54b12e1443e6f52b9e887edaf572d1273a02a63e19110bb695f1de36116421499d5df5dd4af7b352e225f36
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Description-en: Library to access AppStream services (introspection data)
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
and provides tools to read, write and validate the metadata.
.
This package contains introspection data for the AppStream library.
Description-md5: d8e6b6c7a896ab1da0ce47fb8b9dcbe7
Supported: 5y

Package: gir1.2-appstream
Priority: optional
Section: introspection
Installed-Size: 46
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Matthias Klumpp
Architecture: amd64
Source: appstream
Version: 0.9.4-1
Depends: gir1.2-freedesktop (>= 1.32), gir1.2-glib-2.0 (>= 1.46), libappstream3 (= 0.9.4-1)
Filename: pool/main/a/appstream/gir1.2-appstream_0.9.4-1_amd64.deb
Size: 9494
MD5sum: f7dc8e84aadb7fe6310c7ef1e1cc4f1f
SHA1: b6c60c78582b72858b51fef17baeb483e44c2a93
SHA256: 2fae7024ea67d7dabbbecb6f21703d36dc91d8e1fdaa1847a7678393facdb936
Description-en: Library to access AppStream services (introspection data)
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
and provides tools to read, write and validate the metadata.
.
This package contains introspection data for the AppStream library.
Description-md5: d8e6b6c7a896ab1da0ce47fb8b9dcbe7
Homepage: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu
Supported: 9m