Questions tagged [appstream]
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.
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How to locate the AppStream URI of an arbitrary package?
Rationale and Problem KDE's plasma-discover-6.3.2-1.fc41 and GNOME's gnome-software-47.4-1.fc41 each expose a --local-filename parameter that supports appstream:// schema-prefixed URIs. However, how ...
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nextcloud from appstream is missing dependencies
I want to install nextcloud on (Oracle Linux 8 or CentOS 8) from appstream. Is it broken or am I doing something wrong? dnf module enable nextcloud:24 dnf module install nextcloud/default Error: ...
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CentOS 8 stream module conflicts installing package
I'm trying to install the redhat-lsb package. This will allow me to gather additional facts when running ansible against this target machine. When I attempt to install redhat-lsb I get the following ...
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I can't install plasma. ERROR instaling appstream
When I installed Arch linux, I installed GNOME 41 as a GUI. But I want to install KDE plasma 5. I run the following command as root: pacman -S plasma plasma-wayland-session kde-applications But ...
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How to get metadata about a application using appstream API?
I am trying to make a GUI front-end to pacman using alpm. I recently found out that appstream can help me fetch icons, screenshots and all for a application. But I don't understand how do I do that. ...
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running android apps on linux based chromebook 303c
how do I go about downloading, installing, and running android apps on samsung chromebook model # XE303C12? need step by step guide via terminal. I've tried using crouton but apparently that only ...
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why doesn't appstream have apt pdiff like structure?
Whenever I run apt update especially for those which have DEP 11 and are metadata never have pdiffs. Is this something which needs a feature in appstream (upstream) or it's a feature needed to be done ...
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