appstream-validate(1)

appstream-validate1

Validate appstream metadata

Usage

appstream-validate [XMLFILE]

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the appstream-validate command.

appstream-validate validates AppStream metadata. It is able to handle both XML metadata types described in the AppStream specifications, for distributions and upstream projects.

The filetype which should be validated is determined automatically.

For more information about the AppStream project and the other components which are part of it, take a look at the AppStream pages at Freedesktop.org[1].

Options

--version

Display version number of appstream-validate

--verbose

Switch to verbose mode

Notes

1.

Freedesktop.org

http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Distributions/AppStream/

Author

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp <[email protected]>.

From appstream-index 0.7.3-1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.