appstream-index

appstream-index — Manage the AppStream application index

Synopsis

appstream-index [COMMAND]

Description

This manual page documents briefly the appstream-index command.

appstream-index manage the AppStream index. The AppStream application index contains all available applications for your distribution and is generated by either AppStream-XML, Debian-DEP-11 or Ubuntu AppInstall data, which is provided by your distribution. The database is managed by a small DBus-activated daemon, update-appstream-index. This tool connects to the daemon and allows sending simple commands to it.

Options

--version

Display version number of appstream-index

--refresh

Recreate the AppStream database. (useful if app data has changed)

See Also

pkcon (1).

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp .