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

You'll need the following dependencies:

• gettext
• libadwaita-1-dev (>= 1.4)
• libappstream-dev (>= 1.0.0)
• libflatpak-dev (>= 1.0.7)
• libgee-0.8-dev
• libgranite-7-dev (>=7.1.0)
• libgtk-4-dev (>=4.10)
• libjson-glib-dev
• libpolkit-gobject-1-dev
• libportal-dev
• libportal-gtk4-dev
• libsoup-3.0-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libxml2-utils
• meson
• sassc
• valac (>= 0.26)

Runmeson build to configure the build environment. Change to the build directory and runninja to build

meson build --prefix=/usrcd buildninja

To install, useninja install, then execute withio.elementary.appcenter

ninja installio.elementary.appcenter --gapplication-replace

See debug messages:As specified in theGLib 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

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