A fast and simple software center based on elementary AppCenter.
You'll need the following dependencies:
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
ninja install
io.elementary.appcenter --gapplication-replace
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