Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream-generator on Ubuntu 22.04.
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 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-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 22.04
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 22.04, 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 22.04 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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream-generator package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
