Ubuntu
appstream package

  1. Bug #1601971
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1601971

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Pamela Fong (katsiki) wrote :

Ubuntu Desktop Live DVD 14.04.1 gives the same error. Simply booted into Live mode, opened a gnome-terminal, and tried to update,

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 cdrom://Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160719) xenial InRelease
Hit:2 cdrom://Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS _Xenial Xerus_ - Release amd64 (20160719) xenial Release
Hit:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease
Hit:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease

** (appstreamcli:5561): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
AppStream cache update failed.
Reading package lists... Done

I didn't make any other changes to the configuration, or install any other software.