hexisXz / hexcenter

this is a elementary OS app center fork for myself

Hexcenter

a store i forked because i hate the ubuntu/gnome store.

Building, Testing, and Installation

You'll need to run the following command to install all of the dependencies:

sudo apt install gettext libappstream-dev libflatpak-dev libgee-0.8-dev libgranite-dev libgtk-3-dev libhandy-1-dev libjson-glib-dev libpackagekit-glib2-dev libpolkit-gobject-1-dev libsoup2.4-dev libxml2-dev libxml2-utils meson valac

Run this command to build and install the appcenter

git clone https://github.com/hexisXz/hexcenter.git && cd hexcenter && meson build --prefix=/usr && cd build && ninja && sudo ninja install

install all together

sudo apt install gettext libappstream-dev libflatpak-dev libgee-0.8-dev libgranite-dev libgtk-3-dev libhandy-1-dev libjson-glib-dev libpackagekit-glib2-dev libpolkit-gobject-1-dev libsoup2.4-dev libxml2-dev libxml2-utils meson valac && git clone https://github.com/hexisXz/hexcenter.git && cd hexcenter && meson build --prefix=/usr && cd build && ninja && sudo ninja install

To run hexcenter execute io.elementary.appcenter

io.elementary.appcenter

if you want to uninstall hexcenter make sure you are in the build dir and run

ninja uninstall && sudo ninja uninstall && cd .. && sudo rm -r ../hexcenter

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