Flatsonar

AppStream CLI

by Matthias Klumpp

An utility to work with AppStream metadata

Dangerous permissions Flathub reviewed LGPL-2.1+ v1.2.0

About

AppStream is a metadata specification which permits software components to provide information about themselves to automated systems and end-users before the software is actually installed. The AppStream project provides facilities to easily access and transform this metadata, as well as a few additional services for building feature-rich software centers and similar applications that make use of software metadata.

The appstreamcli command-line tool allows to read, write, and transform AppStream XML or YAML metadata as well as to validate it for compliance with the specification. It also provides easy access to the system metadata pool, for example to query for software that provides a specific Mediatype handler or for installing software by its component identifier.

Permissions

1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • full access to your entire file system
    --filesystem=host
  • network
    --share=network
  • access to /var/lib/flatpak
    --filesystem=/var/lib/flatpak:ro
  • access to ~/.local/share/flatpak
    --filesystem=~/.local/share/flatpak:ro

Who publishes this

On Flathub: the manifest was reviewed and built on Flathub's infrastructure, but the developer has not verified ownership of the app id.

  • on Flathub: manifest reviewed and built by Flathub; the developer has not verified the app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

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