AppStream Core

Utilities to generate, maintain and access the AppStream Xapian database.

What is AppStream-Core?

AppStream-Core makes it easy to access application information from the AppStream database over a nice GObject interface. It also contains a small DBus daemon to update the application cache automatically and can be used by a wide variety of programming languages (via GObject-Introspection). In combination with PackageKit in can be used to build Software Centers.

The AppStream Core utilities are alpha software at time, and the API might change a lot during the development process. Please keep that in mind when using it!

Get it!

You can download the latest release here

Documentation

Documentation for the libappstream API as well as the command-line tool can be found on the doc pages.