Appstream in fedora

[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Matthias Klumpp <mak at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi! Replying from my phone, so sorry for top-posting. (I am currently
> without internet)
> This looks like a packaging bug for libas. Can you place "categories.xml"
> from the libas source tree in the requested directory?
> Also, can you ensure that the package "appstream-data" is installed, and
> if you still don't get any search results, run "appstream-index refresh
> --force" as root?
> That should definitively do the trick.
> Cheers,
>     Matthias
> Am 02.10.2014 17:06 schrieb "Aleix Pol" <aleixpol at kde.org>:
>
> >
> > Hi ximion,
> > I was trying to test muon discover in fedora, because I thought it would
> be appstream wonderland (in comparison to Arch, at least) and I'm not
> having anything reported. See this for example:
> >
> > [aleix at localhost ~]$ appstream-index search libreoffice
> > I/O warning : failed to load external entity
> "/usr/share/appstream/app-info/categories.xml"
> > No component matching 'libreoffice' found.
> >
> > Do you know what can be happening?
> >
> > FWIW, the actual problem isn't that appstream-index is not working, but
> Muon Discover isn't working. This is just an easier way to reproduce the
> problem.
> >
> > Aleix
>

I already refreshed appstream-index otherwise other things crash.

Is the categories.xml needed to get results from the index?

Aleix
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