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appstream-indexappstream-index — Manage the AppStream component index |
appstream-index
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This manual page documents briefly the appstream-index command.
appstream-index manages the AppStream index. The AppStream component index contains a list of all available applications for your distribution, matched with their native package names. It is generated using either AppStream-XML, Debian-DEP-11 or Ubuntu AppInstall data, which is provided by your distributor.
For more information about the AppStream project and the other components which are part of it, take a look at the AppStream pages at Freedesktop.org.
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Display version number of appstream-index |
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Don't print colored output. |
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Trigger a database refresh, if necessary.
In case you want to force the database to be rebuilt, supply the This command most be executed with root permission. |
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Get a component by it's identifier. |
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Search the AppStream component database for a given search term. |
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Print out more information about a found component. |
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Return components which provide a given item. An item type can be specified using the
Examples: Get components which handle the "text/xml" mimetype. appstream-index --what-provides -t mimetype -v text/xml Get component which provides the "libfoo.so.2" library. appstream-index --what-provides -t lib -v libfoo.so.2 |