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Asked: 2020-05-14 03:27:34 +0800 CST

Is there a GUI for the tool fwupd (firmware updater) in Ubuntu GNOME?

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In Ubuntu MATE 20.04 a Firmware Updater is integrated, it is a GTK front end for fwupd. And I wonder whether there is such thing for the Vanilla Ubuntu GNOME.

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    In the Software Center there is a tool (as deb package from Ubuntu 20.04 onwards, in the universe repository* and snap):
    GNOME Firmware (gnome-firmware)
    GTK front end for fwupd. It can update, reinstall and downgrade firmware on devices supported by fwupd. enter image description here To install it from the command line (Terminal):
    For the deb package (Ubuntu 20.04 and newer): sudo apt install gnome-firmware
    For the snap app: sudo snap install gnome-firmware
    There is a also flatpak version.

    It seems that there is still room for improvement of the app, though. Therefore it could be still better to update the firmware from the command line.

    For some devices, firmware updates are directly listed in GNOME Software. enter image description here

    Canonical is working on a new firmware-updater app:
    https://github.com/canonical/firmware-updater

    *Thank you N0rbert for the hint!

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