appstreamcli wants to install to non-existent directory

[probonopd]

On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:

$ sudo appstreamcli put /home/me/Desktop/krita.appdata.xml 
Unable to write to '/usr/share/metainfo', can not install metainfo file.
$ ls /usr/share/metainfo
ls: cannot access '/usr/share/metainfo': No such file or directory

# Workaround:
$ sudo mkdir /usr/share/metainfo
$ sudo appstreamcli put /home/me/Desktop/krita.appdata.xml 
$ ls /usr/share/metainfo
krita.appdata.xml

But not sure if the information is picked up from /usr/share/metainfo.