APPDATA2SOLV(1)

📦 version 0.7.41, in arch rolling, centos-stream 10, centos-stream 9, fedora 43, fedora 44, opensuse-leap 16.0

✨ APPDATA2SOLV(1) ✨ 🎀

💖 NAME

okay so bestie, the whole point of appdata2solv is to turn application meta data into a solv file 🦋 slay.

🌸 SYNOPSIS

appdata2solv [OPTIONS]

✨ DESCRIPTION

okay so the appdata format holds metadata about applications 💅 and it can show up in repositories (for apps you could install) and in your installed system (for apps you already have) 🫶. the appdata2solv tool reads that metadata from stdin and then writes the parsed data out as a solv file to standard output 🔥. it creates application: pseudo packages for each entry, which is literally so iconic 👑.

-d APPDATADIR — ngl this one skips stdin entirely 🙈 and instead scans the directory you give it for appdata entries. APPDATADIR is normally set to /usr/share/appdata 💜.
-r ROOTDIR — tells it to use ROOTDIR as the root directory 🌈.

🦋 SEE ALSO

mergesolv(1) 🧚

👑 AUTHOR

Michael Schroeder <mls@suse.de> 💜

bestie that's the whole tea ☕🎀 this page came from LIBSOLV, version 07/25/2017, date 07/25/2017 🌈 mwah 💖

📦 where this page comes from

arch rolling: libsolv 0.7.41-1 · BSD-3-Clause
centos-stream 10: libsolv-tools 0.7.33-7.el10 · BSD-3-Clause
centos-stream 9: libsolv-tools 0.7.24-8.el9 · BSD
fedora 43: libsolv-tools 0.7.34-5.fc43 · BSD-3-Clause
fedora 43: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-1.fc43 · BSD-3-Clause
fedora 44: libsolv-tools 0.7.36-2.fc44 · BSD-3-Clause
fedora 44: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-1.fc44
fedora 44: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-2.fc44
fedora 44: libsolv-tools 0.7.41-1.fc44 · BSD-3-Clause
opensuse-leap 16.0: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-160000.1.1 · BSD-3-Clause
opensuse-leap 16.0: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-160000.1.1 · BSD-3-Clause
opensuse-leap 16.0: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-160000.1.1 · BSD-3-Clause
opensuse-leap 16.0: libsolv-tools 0.7.40-160000.1.1 · BSD-3-Clause
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