Description: AppStream is a collaborative effort for enhancing the way we interact with the software repositories provided by the distribution by standardizing sets of additional metadata. AppStream provides the foundation to build software-center applications. It additionally provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers for software distributions. You can find a C/GLib based reference implementation of the specification here and report bugs about the implementation as well as the specification itself at the issue tracker.

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# AppStream

## Infrastructure for distro-agnostic software-centers and universal software component metadata

Edition 1

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### Matthias Klumpp

Debian
`mak@debian.org`

### Michael Vogt

Canonical / Ubuntu / Debian
`mvo@ubuntu.com`

### Richard Hughes

Fedora / Red Hat
`richard@hughsie.com`

### Vincent Untz

OpenSUSE
`vuntz@opensuse.org`

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Abstract

AppStream is a collaborative effort for enhancing the way we interact with the software repositories provided by the distribution by standardizing sets of additional metadata.
AppStream provides the foundation to build software-center applications. It additionally provides specifications for things like an unified software metadata database, screenshot services and various other things needed to create user-friendly application-centers for software distributions.
You can find a C/GLib based reference implementation of the specification here and report bugs about the implementation as well as the specification itself at the issue tracker.

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