appstream-index

## appstream-index appstream-index — Manage the AppStream application index |

## Synopsis

`appstream-index` [`COMMAND`]

## Description

This manual page documents briefly the appstream-index command.

appstream-index manages the AppStream index. The AppStream application index contains a list of all available applications for your distribution, matched to their native package names. It is generated using either AppStream-XML, Debian-DEP-11 or Ubuntu AppInstall data, which is provided by your distributor. The database is managed using a small DBus-activated daemon. This tool connects to the daemon and allows sending simple commands.

## Options

`--version` | Display version number of appstream-index
`--refresh` | Recreate the AppStream database (useful if application data has changed). You can use the `--nowait` option in combination with this parameter to not wait for the database update process to finish.
`-s`, `--search `TERM`` | Search the AppStream application database for a given search term.

## See Also

pkcon (1).

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp `<matthias@tenstral.net>`.