AppCenter

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

Building, Testing, and Installation

You'll need the following dependencies:

• gettext
• libadwaita-1-dev (>= 1.4)
• libappstream-dev (>= 0.15.2)
• libflatpak-dev (>= 1.0.7)
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libgranite-7-dev (>=7.1.0)
• libgtk-4-dev (>=4.10)
• libjson-glib-dev
• libpackagekit-glib2-dev
• libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
• libportal-dev
• libportal-gtk3-dev
• libsoup-3.0-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxml2-utils
• meson
• sassc
• 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

ninja install
io.elementary.appcenter --gapplication-replace

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