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appstream package

  1. Bug #1579712
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 1579712

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Eduardo (ludentico) wrote : Re: Refresh hangs due to strdup on non-NULL terminated string

Removing appstreamcli seems to do the trick. I'm not aware of side effects

sudo rm /usr/bin/appstreamcli

Source: http://trastetes.blogspot.com/2016/02/solucion-al-error-e-then-appstreamcli.html