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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.

AppStream is a cross-distribution effort for enhancing the way we interact with the software repositories provided by (Linux) distributions by standardizing software component metadata.

It provides the foundation to build software-center applications, by providing metadata necessary for an application-centric view on package repositories. AppStream additionally provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers for (Linux) distributions.

You can find more info. on the in-depth specification at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/

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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 output: yum install redhat-lsb Last metadata…
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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: Problem 1: conflicting requests - nothing…
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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 works if the chromebook is intel based which mine is…
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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 in the apt implementation ? Regular pdiff files…
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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 executing this command freezes for a while installing…
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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. In the documentation for appstream there is struct…
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