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)
- libdbus-1-dev
- libflatpak-dev (>= 1.0.7)
- libgee-0.8-dev
- libgranite-7-dev (>=7.7.0)
- 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)
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
See debug messages: As specified in the GLib documentation
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG=all io.elementary.appcenter
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