How To Install appstream on Fedora 36
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream in Fedora 36. appstream is Utilities to generate, maintain and access the AppStream database
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream on Fedora 36.
What is appstream
AppStream makes it easy to access application information from the AppStream database over a nice GObject-based interface.
We can use yum or dnf to install appstream on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appstream.
Install appstream on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install appstream using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install appstream
Install appstream on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install appstream using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install appstream
How To Uninstall appstream on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the appstream package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove appstream
appstream Package Contents on Fedora 36
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title: "How To Install appstream on Fedora 36"
linkTitle: "appstream"
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/etc/appstream.conf
/usr/bin/appstreamcli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/070eef167f9a87fafe7f642a701359e96493bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/53
/usr/lib/.build-id/53/6f100955ff4996678a683c58c057d81dca3a4e
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/AppStream-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libappstream.so.0.15.2
/usr/lib64/libappstream.so.4
/usr/share/doc/appstream
/usr/share/doc/appstream/AUTHORS
/usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.its
/usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.loc
/usr/share/licenses/appstream
/usr/share/licenses/appstream/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ain/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_BD/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/rom/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/appstreamcli.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml
/var/cache/app-info
/var/cache/app-info/cache.watch
/var/cache/app-info/gv
/var/cache/app-info/icons
/var/cache/app-info/xmls
description: "In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream in Fedora 36. appstream is Utilities to generate, maintain and access the AppStream database"
date: "2022-08-17"
lastmod: "2022-08-17"
#image: /images/fedora/36/appstream-featured.png
---
## Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install `appstream` on Fedora 36.
### What is `appstream`
> AppStream makes it easy to access application information from the AppStream database over a nice GObject-based interface.
References
We can use yum or dnf to install appstream on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install appstream.
Install appstream on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Summary
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
In this tutorial we learn how to install `appstream` on [Fedora 36](/fedora/36/) using [yum](/fedora/36/yum/) and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install appstream using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install appstream
Install appstream on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install appstream using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install appstream
How To Uninstall appstream on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the appstream package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove appstream
appstream Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/appstream.conf
/usr/bin/appstreamcli
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/58b9e7017680b4179736c52bc85d61ef044e3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/b22fb0ad2536371b0a0809dbc410b926eb1086
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/AppStream-1.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libappstream.so.0.15.2
/usr/lib/libappstream.so.4
/usr/share/doc/appstream
/usr/share/doc/appstream/AUTHORS
/usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.its
/usr/share/gettext/its/metainfo.loc
/usr/share/licenses/appstream
/usr/share/licenses/appstream/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ain/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_BD/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/rom/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/appstream.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/appstreamcli.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.freedesktop.appstream.cli.metainfo.xml
/var/cache/app-info
/var/cache/app-info/cache.watch
/var/cache/app-info/gv
/var/cache/app-info/icons
/var/cache/app-info/xmls
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).