How To Install appstream on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream on Debian 9.
What is appstream
appstream is:
AppStream is a metadata specification, allowing to write metadata for software projects in a standardized format. It provides facilities to easily access and transform the data, as well as a few additional services to allow building feature-rich software center 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 Debian 9. 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 Debian. 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 Debian 9
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 Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove appstream
Remove appstream Configurations and Data
To remove appstream configuration and data from Debian 9 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
Dependencies
appstream have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install appstream package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.