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Richard Hughes edited this page Dec 31, 2023 · 9 revisions

Flatpaks of the standalone fwupdtool are available on Flathub.

Pre-requisites

Make sure that the Flathub repository has been enabled.

$ flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

Installation

# flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.fwupd

Usage

Fwupdtool exercises all plugins available for fwupd, but must be executed as root.

Supported devices

To see the devices supported:

# sudo -i flatpak run org.freedesktop.fwupd get-devices

Updating devices

Execute the installation like this:

# sudo -i flatpak run org.freedesktop.fwupd update

Installing firmware manually

Execute the installation like this:

# sudo -i flatpak run org.freedesktop.fwupd install $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR/firmware.cab
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