How To Install appstream-generator on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023 (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream-generator on Ubuntu.

What is `appstream-generator`

appstream-generator is:

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.

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.

There are three methods to install appstream-generator on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install appstream-generator Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install appstream-generator using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install appstream-generator

Install appstream-generator Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install appstream-generator using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install appstream-generator

Install appstream-generator Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install appstream-generator using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install appstream-generator

How To Uninstall appstream-generator on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the appstream-generator package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove appstream-generator

Uninstall appstream-generator And Its Dependencies

To uninstall appstream-generator and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove appstream-generator

Remove appstream-generator Configurations and Data

To remove appstream-generator configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge appstream-generator

Remove appstream-generator configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove appstream-generator configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge appstream-generator

Dependencies

appstream-generator have the following dependencies:

References

appstream-generator website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream-generator package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.