Questions tagged [appstream]
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do-release-upgrade results in error: APT / GLib-Critical / apstreamcli / libappstream [duplicate]
i am currently trying to do-release-upgrade an Ubuntu 17.10 install to 18.04.6 LTS via 'sudo do-release-upgrade'. Sadly, the process does not finish, as it return the following very quickly:
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GPG verification enabled, but no signatures found in Gnome Software
"Software" keeps telling me there are updates but every time I click the notification, I don't get to see any updates because there's an error:
Sorry, something went wrong:
While pulling ...
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get error while sudo apt update in ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
My system is broken not able to work anything on that. Ubuntu online store shows empty
when I try to update I get an error related to Appstream
AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were ...
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How to handle appstream:// links in Ubuntu?
I have some AppStream links (for ex.: appstream://org.kde.k3b.desktop) that I want to open, I tried to find an app to open them but couldn't find any, so any ideas on how to do this ?
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How does Discover decide which applications it should feature?
Kubuntu's software management suite is called Discover (or plasma-discover if you're using a terminal) and is analogous to the Ubuntu Software Center (or gnome-software). Its main panel displays a ...
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Metadata and appstream Error while Updating
I am getting an error while updating as a root. After Update log below error was shown in terminal.
AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found: Metadata files have errors: /var/...
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Apt update failing after updating appstream [duplicate]
this issue is linked to how I can fix "AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors."?"
I had similar problem as described in issue and the approved ...
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What does the apt update error mean? [duplicate]
After running "sudo apt update" it seems to work but I get this error "AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors."
What does it mean?
ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Hit:1 http:/...
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appstreamcli: AppStream system cache was updated, but problems were found: Metadata files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml
How do I get rid of this?
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:2 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease ...
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Updating package lists in 16.04 [duplicate]
I'm running 16.04 from a thumb drive and receiving an error message when I attempt to update package lists.
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - ...
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Running command sudo apt-get update, getting error "Error while moving old databse out of the way" App stream cache update failed [duplicate]
Error while moving old database out of the way. App stream cache update failed
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E: Problem executing scripts APT Update::Post-Invoke-Success error during apt-get update
I cannot install any package.
It seems the command apt-get update must be run
but it throws some errors:
$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease [102 ...
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E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success [duplicate]
I am getting the following error when I run sudo apt update
Aborted (core dumped)
Reading package lists... Done
E: Problem executing scripts APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success 'if /usr/bin/test -w /var/...
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AppStream problems found "Metadata files have errors: /var/cache/app-info/xmls/fwupd.xml" on Ubuntu 17.04 [duplicate]
I have researched this, and there are no other entries on the internet that I can find with this problem, so posting here. It may be that the wording in 17.04 is different leading to no hits. But ...
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Ubuntu 16.04: appstreamcli error while get-update [duplicate]
I am trying to enable WiFi. I tried sudo apt-get update. But I am getting this error:
The AppStream system cache was updated, but some errors were detected, which might lead to missing metadata. ...
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Is it safe to upgrade appstream if APT has kept it back?
I ran apt upgrade the other day, and got this:
The following packages have been kept back:
appstream
According to a related question somewhere on this site, appstream is safe to even remove.
How ...
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What is AppStream? Why is it installed? What is it doing?
There's another question about AppStream that has —for better or worse— focussed on what seems to be a particular bug in AppStream but that left me realising I don't have a clue what this thing ...
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appstreamcli hanging with 100% CPU usage during update
appstreamcli is overheating my laptop by constantly using 100% of a core. My only solution is to kill it. Here's a screenshot of top:
I can kill appstreamcli with either sudo kill pid or sudo killall ...
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appstreamcli: Detected colliding ids: XY.desktop was already added with the same priority
I have recently found that when running sudo apt-get update on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 (though it is the same on all flavours) that this is the output:
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial ...
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