@nader-f: You're probably using an out-of-date ISO for your VM. This
issue was fixed in 16.04 a long time ago. Be sure to use the 16.04.1 ISO
and not the original 16.04 ISO in the future. The [change summary for
16.04.1][1] specifically mentions this bug as having been fixed.
[1]:
https://wiki.ubu
The simplest workaround seems to be to use Ctrl-C when apt update hangs
at the end. It's already done most of the work, and this just aborts the
running of appstreamcli at the end. You can then go ahead and update any
binary packages built from the appstream source package (ie any of
appstream apps
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The version from -proposed (0.9.4-1ubuntu1) resolves this issue for me.
Thanks! Great to have this.
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I would really like to see this go through as an SRU to Xenial. I am
hitting a problem with my third-party repo 100% of the time. When I have
the repo enabled, apt-get update hangs indefinitely when it runs
appstreamcli at the end, and I assume all of the users of my repo are
experiencing the same
