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appstream-cliappstream-cli — Handle AppStream metadata and the AppStream index |
appstream-cli
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This manual page documents briefly the appstream-cli command.
appstream-cli is a small helper tool to work with AppStream metadata and access the AppStream component index from the command-line. The AppStream component index contains a list of all available software components for your distribution, matched to their package names. It is generated using AppStream XML or Debian DEP-11 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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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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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-cli what-provides mimetype "text/xml" Get component which provides the "libfoo.so.2" library. appstream-cli what-provides lib libfoo.so.2 |
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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 must be executed with root permission. |
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Dump the XML description of a component with the given ID. |
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Validate AppStream XML metadata for compliance with the specification. Both XML metadata types, upstream and distro XML, are handled. The filetype which should be validated is determined automatically.
The |
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Print out more information about a found component. |
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Don't print colored output. |
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Display the version number of appstream-cli |