On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 12:41 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com> wrote:
On 16 December 2015 at 18:09, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069@gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought I successfully used gnome-software --prefer-local before but no
> matter what I do it doesn't find the package.

You need to do (kill the old instance):

killall gnome-software
gnome-software --prefer-local

Ok, that's still a nogo... I assume that the search is not case sensitive?  


> I've even gone as far as to try appstream-util install /path/to/appdata.xml
> but I'm not sure if that does what I want as the documentation is pretty
> light for the options.

"appstream-util validate foo.appdata.xml" does the validation, but
gnome-software is the only client that can do a graphical "preview" of
what it looks like. Perhaps I need to fix that.

Maybe not... I don't mind using gnome-software as long as I can figure out how to make sure it sees the new appdata file.

I'm not actually too worried about the content per se, but I do want to verify that the screenshot URL is good and that it looks good.

Thanks,
Richard