APPSTREAM-COMPOSE(1)

💖 APPSTREAM-COMPOSE 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the appstream-compose page — section 1 of the User Commands manual, aka the glow-up zone for your AppStream metadata. pull up a chair, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

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✨ NAME ✨

appstream-compose — Generate AppStream metadata 💅

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

appstream-compose [OPTION...]

like… that's it. that's the whole vibe. [OPTION...], no cap.

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

This manual page documents briefly the appstream-compose command. short and sweet, we love a low-commitment queen 👑

appstream-compose is a simple app that takes a prefix (default /usr) and a set of application names. that's the main character energy right there 🫶

then — and this is the part that's giving iconic — it goes looking for appdata, metainfo, desktop and icon files with that basename in:

$prefix/share/[appdata|metainfo|applications|icons]

and generates appstream xml files and icons in (by default):

$prefix/share/app-info

so basically: you hand it a prefix and some names, it hunts down your files, and it composes the metadata. literally the friend who finds everyone's lost stuff at a party and then organises it into a cute little folder ✨🧚

fr fr, remember: the default prefix is /usr, and the default output lands in $prefix/share/app-info. iykyk 💜

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>.

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🌈 no filler, all facts, we ate and left no crumbs 💅

sign-off: this lil page lives in the User Commands section of the manual, filed under APPSTREAM-COMPOSE(1) — no version or date stamped on it, so we're just out here vibing in section 1 forever 🦋⭐💖