AppCenter

An open, pay-what-you-want app store for indie developers.

Building, Testing, and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

• gettext
• libappstream-dev (>= 0.10)
• libflatpak-dev
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libgranite-dev (>=5.2.5)
• libgtk-3-dev
• libhandy-1-dev
• libjson-glib-dev
• libpackagekit-glib2-dev
• libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
• libsoup2.4-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxml2-utils
• meson
• valac (>= 0.26)

Run meson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and run ninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usr
cd build
ninja

To install, use ninja install, then execute with io.elementary.appcenter

sudo ninja install
io.elementary.appcenter

Debugging

See debug messages: As specified in the GLib documentation

G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all io.elementary.appcenter

Show restart required messaging:

sudo touch /var/run/reboot-required

Hide restart required messaging:

sudo rm /var/run/reboot-required

Fake updates with the -f flag followed by PackageKit package name, not appstream id:

io.elementary.appcenter -f inkscape

Load and preview a local AppStream XML metadata file, your local metadata will show up in the featured banner and will also be searchable. Metadata loaded this way will have a (local) suffix in it's name.

io.elementary.appcenter --load-local /path/to/file.appdata.xml