diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b031aea84..835a59c6e 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ option(WITH_COMPS "Build with comps groups and environments support" ON)
 option(WITH_MODULEMD "Build with modulemd modules support" ON)
 option(WITH_ZCHUNK "Build with zchunk delta compression support" ON)
 option(WITH_SYSTEMD "Build with systemd and D-Bus features" ON)
+option(WITH_APPSTREAM "Build with appstream support" ON)
 option(ENABLE_SOLV_URPMREORDER "Build with support for URPM-like solution reordering?" OFF)
 option(ENABLE_SOLV_FOCUSNEW "Build with SOLVER_FLAG_FOCUS_NEW libsolv flag enabled to ensure new dependencies are installed in latests versions?" ON)
 
@@ -129,6 +130,10 @@ if (WITH_MODULEMD)
     add_definitions(-DWITH_MODULEMD)
 endif()
 
+if (WITH_APPSTREAM)
+    add_definitions(-DWITH_APPSTREAM)
+endif()
+
 include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/include")
 include_directories("${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/common")
 
diff --git a/include/libdnf5/repo/repo.hpp b/include/libdnf5/repo/repo.hpp
index 425982882..c7c4cc8fe 100644
--- a/include/libdnf5/repo/repo.hpp
+++ b/include/libdnf5/repo/repo.hpp
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ class LIBDNF_API Repo {
     // @replaces libdnf:repo/Repo.hpp:method:Repo.loadCache(bool throwExcept)
     void read_metadata_cache();
 
+    /// install downloaded appstream data for the repo, if available and
+    /// if built with the appstream support
+    void install_appstream();
+
     /// Checks whether the locally downloaded metadata are in sync with the origin.
     /// @return `true` if metadata are in sync with the origin, `false` otherwise.
     bool is_in_sync();
diff --git a/libdnf5/CMakeLists.txt b/libdnf5/CMakeLists.txt
index d360901ee..c5e82bc78 100644
--- a/libdnf5/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/libdnf5/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -81,6 +81,13 @@ if (WITH_MODULEMD)
     target_link_libraries(libdnf5_static PRIVATE ${LIBMODULEMD_LIBRARIES})
 endif()
 
+if (WITH_APPSTREAM)
+    pkg_check_modules(APPSTREAM REQUIRED appstream>=1.0)
+    include_directories(${APPSTREAM_INCLUDE_DIRS})
+    target_link_libraries(libdnf5 PRIVATE ${APPSTREAM_LIBRARIES})
+    target_link_libraries(libdnf5_static PRIVATE ${APPSTREAM_LIBRARIES})
+endif()
+
 if (ENABLE_SOLV_FOCUSNEW)
     pkg_check_modules(LIBSOLV REQUIRED libsolv>=0.7.30)
 else()
diff --git a/libdnf5/repo/repo.cpp b/libdnf5/repo/repo.cpp
index c621eab67..b9e7035a8 100644
--- a/libdnf5/repo/repo.cpp
+++ b/libdnf5/repo/repo.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ constexpr const char * REPOID_CHARS = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmno
 #include "repo_downloader.hpp"
 #include "rpm/package_sack_impl.hpp"
 #include "solv_repo.hpp"
+#include "utils/string.hpp"
 
 #include "libdnf5/common/exception.hpp"
 #include "libdnf5/conf/const.hpp"
@@ -52,6 +53,9 @@ extern "C" {
 #include <filesystem>
 #include <set>
 
+#ifdef WITH_APPSTREAM
+#include <appstream.h>
+#endif
 
 namespace libdnf5::repo {
 
@@ -203,6 +207,44 @@ void Repo::read_metadata_cache() {
     p_impl->downloader->load_local();
 }
 
+void Repo::install_appstream() {
+#ifdef WITH_APPSTREAM
+    std::string repo_id = p_impl->config.get_id();
+    const std::map<std::string, std::string> & metadata_paths = p_impl->downloader->get_metadata_paths();
+    std::vector<std::string> basenames;
+    /* Let every type starting with any of the basenames be considered as the Appstream
+       data and pass it to the "appstream" library for installation; example type names
+       are "appstream", "appstream-icons", "appstream-icons_64x64", "appdata", "appdata-icons".
+       The list of the variants can be long, thus do not hard code the it, but use
+       the "starts_with" comparison instead. */
+    /* TODO: make the list configurable with this default */
+    basenames.push_back("appstream");
+    basenames.push_back("appdata");
+
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < basenames.size(); i++) {
+        std::string basename = basenames[i];
+        for (std::map<std::string, std::string>::const_iterator it = metadata_paths.begin(); it != metadata_paths.end(); it++) {
+            const std::string type = it->first;
+            const std::string path = it->second;
+            GError * local_error = NULL;
+
+            if (!utils::string::starts_with(type, basename))
+                continue;
+
+            if (!as_utils_install_metadata_file(
+                    AS_METADATA_LOCATION_CACHE, path.c_str(), repo_id.c_str(), NULL, &local_error)) {
+                p_impl->base->get_logger()->debug(
+                    "Failed to install Appstream metadata file '{}' for repo '{}': {}",
+                    path,
+                    repo_id,
+                    local_error ? local_error->message : "Unknown error");
+            }
+
+            g_clear_error(&local_error);
+        }
+    }
+#endif
+}
 
 bool Repo::is_in_sync() {
     if (!p_impl->config.get_metalink_option().empty() && !p_impl->config.get_metalink_option().get_value().empty()) {
@@ -409,6 +451,10 @@ void Repo::load_available_repo() {
     }
 
     p_impl->solv_repo->load_repo_main(p_impl->downloader->repomd_filename, primary_fn);
+#ifdef WITH_APPSTREAM
+    p_impl->solv_repo->load_repo_ext(RepodataType::APPSTREAM, *p_impl->downloader.get());
+    p_impl->solv_repo->load_repo_ext(RepodataType::APPSTREAM_ICONS, *p_impl->downloader.get());
+#endif
 
     auto optional_metadata = p_impl->config.get_main_config().get_optional_metadata_types_option().get_value();
 
diff --git a/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.cpp b/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.cpp
index b142aabbe..c5c8194ab 100644
--- a/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.cpp
+++ b/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.cpp
@@ -389,6 +389,9 @@ const std::string & RepoDownloader::get_metadata_path(const std::string & metada
     return it != metadata_paths.end() ? it->second : empty;
 }
 
+const std::map<std::string, std::string> & RepoDownloader::get_metadata_paths() const {
+    return metadata_paths;
+}
 
 LibrepoHandle RepoDownloader::init_local_handle() {
     LibrepoHandle h;
@@ -477,6 +480,10 @@ void RepoDownloader::common_handle_setup(LibrepoHandle & h) {
     dlist.push_back(MD_FILENAME_PRIMARY);
 #ifdef WITH_MODULEMD
     dlist.push_back(MD_FILENAME_MODULES);
+#endif
+#ifdef WITH_APPSTREAM
+    dlist.push_back(MD_FILENAME_APPSTREAM);
+    dlist.push_back(MD_FILENAME_APPSTREAM_ICONS);
 #endif
     if (optional_metadata.extract(libdnf5::METADATA_TYPE_FILELISTS)) {
         dlist.push_back(MD_FILENAME_FILELISTS);
diff --git a/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.hpp b/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.hpp
index 1c14b272b..c98bff4f3 100644
--- a/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.hpp
+++ b/libdnf5/repo/repo_downloader.hpp
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ class RepoDownloader {
     static constexpr const char * MD_FILENAME_GROUP_GZ = "group_gz";
     static constexpr const char * MD_FILENAME_GROUP = "group";
     static constexpr const char * MD_FILENAME_MODULES = "modules";
+    static constexpr const char * MD_FILENAME_APPSTREAM = "appstream";
+    static constexpr const char * MD_FILENAME_APPSTREAM_ICONS = "appstream-icons";
 
     RepoDownloader(const libdnf5::BaseWeakPtr & base, const ConfigRepo & config, Repo::Type repo_type);
 
@@ -74,6 +76,7 @@ class RepoDownloader {
     void * get_user_data() const noexcept;
 
     const std::string & get_metadata_path(const std::string & metadata_type) const;
+    const std::map<std::string, std::string> & get_metadata_paths() const;
 
 
 private:
diff --git a/libdnf5/repo/repo_sack.cpp b/libdnf5/repo/repo_sack.cpp
index 62e6e92ad..fadaed389 100644
--- a/libdnf5/repo/repo_sack.cpp
+++ b/libdnf5/repo/repo_sack.cpp
@@ -574,6 +574,7 @@ void RepoSack::Impl::update_and_load_repos(libdnf5::repo::RepoQuery & repos, boo
                 RepoCache(base, cache_dir).remove_attribute(RepoCache::ATTRIBUTE_EXPIRED);
                 repo->mark_fresh();
                 repo->read_metadata_cache();
+                repo->install_appstream();
 
                 repos_for_processing.erase(repos_for_processing.begin() + static_cast<ssize_t>(idx));
                 send_to_sack_loader(repo);
diff --git a/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.cpp b/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.cpp
index 67025e452..efb5c04e3 100644
--- a/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.cpp
+++ b/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.cpp
@@ -179,6 +179,10 @@ static const char * repodata_type_to_name(RepodataType type) {
             return RepoDownloader::MD_FILENAME_GROUP;
         case RepodataType::OTHER:
             return RepoDownloader::MD_FILENAME_OTHER;
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM:
+            return RepoDownloader::MD_FILENAME_APPSTREAM;
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM_ICONS:
+            return RepoDownloader::MD_FILENAME_APPSTREAM_ICONS;
     }
 
     libdnf_throw_assertion("Unknown RepodataType: {}", utils::to_underlying(type));
@@ -197,6 +201,9 @@ static int repodata_type_to_flags(RepodataType type) {
             return 0;
         case RepodataType::OTHER:
             return REPO_EXTEND_SOLVABLES | REPO_LOCALPOOL;
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM:
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM_ICONS:
+            return 0;
     }
 
     libdnf_throw_assertion("Unknown RepodataType: {}", utils::to_underlying(type));
@@ -313,6 +320,8 @@ void SolvRepo::load_system_repo_ext(RepodataType type) {
         case RepodataType::OTHER:
         case RepodataType::PRESTO:
         case RepodataType::UPDATEINFO:
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM:
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM_ICONS:
             throw SolvError(M_("Unsupported extended repodata type for the system repo: \"{}\"."), type_name);
     }
 }
@@ -375,6 +384,12 @@ void SolvRepo::load_repo_ext(RepodataType type, const RepoDownloader & downloade
         case RepodataType::OTHER:
             res = repo_add_rpmmd(repo, ext_file.get(), 0, REPO_EXTEND_SOLVABLES);
             break;
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM:
+            res = repo_add_rpmmd(repo, ext_file.get(), 0, REPO_EXTEND_SOLVABLES);
+            break;
+        case RepodataType::APPSTREAM_ICONS:
+            res = repo_add_rpmmd(repo, ext_file.get(), 0, REPO_EXTEND_SOLVABLES);
+            break;
     }
 
     if (res != 0) {
diff --git a/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.hpp b/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.hpp
index ae6e62e47..2fdcb27b0 100644
--- a/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.hpp
+++ b/libdnf5/repo/solv_repo.hpp
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ struct SolvUserdata {
 namespace libdnf5::repo {
 
 using LibsolvRepo = ::Repo;
-enum class RepodataType { FILELISTS, PRESTO, UPDATEINFO, COMPS, OTHER };
+enum class RepodataType { FILELISTS, PRESTO, UPDATEINFO, COMPS, OTHER, APPSTREAM, APPSTREAM_ICONS };
 
 
 class SolvError : public Error {