Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is appstream
appstream is:
AppStream is a metadata specification which permits software components to
provide information about themselves to automated systems and end-users
before the software is actually installed.
The AppStream project provides facilities to easily access and transform
this metadata, as well as a few additional services to allow building
feature-rich software centers and similar applications.
This package provides tools to generate, maintain and query the AppStream
data pool of installed and available software, and enables integration
with the APT package manager.
The ‘appstreamcli’ tool can be used for accessing the software component
pool as well as for working with AppStream metadata directly, including
validating it for compliance with the specification.
There are three methods to install appstream on Ubuntu 22.04. 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 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 using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install appstream
Install appstream Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install appstream using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install appstream
Install appstream 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 using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install appstream
How To Uninstall appstream on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the appstream package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove appstream
Uninstall appstream And Its Dependencies
To uninstall appstream and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove appstream
Remove appstream Configurations and Data
To remove appstream configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge appstream
Remove appstream configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove appstream configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge appstream
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
