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fwupdmgr: Firmware update manager client utility
NAME
fwupdmgr - Firmware update manager client utility
DESCRIPTION
Usage:
- fwupdmgr [OPTION?]
- activate [DEVICE-ID]
- Activate devices
- clear-history
- Erase all firmware update history
- clear-offline
- Clears any updates scheduled to be updated offline
- clear-results DEVICE-ID
- Clears the results from the last update
- disable-remote REMOTE-ID
- Disables a given remote
- downgrade [DEVICE-ID]
- Downgrades the firmware on a device
- enable-remote REMOTE-ID
- Enables a given remote
- get-approved-firmware
- Gets the list of approved firmware.
- get-details FILE
- Gets details about a firmware file
- get-devices
- Get all devices that support firmware updates
- get-history
- Show history of firmware updates
- get-releases [DEVICE-ID]
- Gets the releases for a device
- get-remotes
- Gets the configured remotes
- get-results DEVICE-ID
- Gets the results from the last update
- get-topology
- Alias to get-devices
- get-updates
- Gets the list of updates for connected hardware
- get-upgrades
- Alias to get-updates
- install FILE [DEVICE-ID]
- Install a firmware file on this hardware
- modify-config KEY,VALUE
- Modifies a daemon configuration value.
- modify-remote REMOTE-ID KEY VALUE
- Modifies a given remote
- refresh [FILE FILE_SIG REMOTE-ID]
- Refresh metadata from remote server
- reinstall [DEVICE-ID]
- Reinstall current firmware on the device.
- report-history
- Share firmware history with the developers
- set-approved-firmware CHECKSUM1[,CHECKSUM2][,CHECKSUM3]
- Sets the list of approved firmware.
- unlock DEVICE-ID
- Unlocks the device for firmware access
- update [DEVICE-ID]
- Updates all firmware to latest versions available
- upgrade [DEVICE-ID]
- Alias to update
- verify [DEVICE-ID]
- Checks cryptographic hash matches firmware
- verify-update [DEVICE-ID]
- Update the stored cryptographic hash with current ROM contents
Help Options:
- -h, --help
- Show help options
Application Options:
- -v, --verbose
- Show extra debugging information
- --version
- Show client and daemon versions
- --offline
- Schedule installation for next reboot when possible
- --allow-reinstall
- Allow reinstalling existing firmware versions
- --allow-older
- Allow downgrading firmware versions
- --force
- Override warnings and force the action
- -y, --assume-yes
- Answer yes to all questions
- --sign
- Sign the uploaded data with the client certificate
- --no-unreported-check
- Do not check for unreported history
- --no-metadata-check
- Do not check for old metadata
- --no-reboot-check
- Do not check for reboot after update
- --no-safety-check
- Do not perform device safety checks
- --no-history
- Do not write to the history database
- --show-all-devices
- Show devices that are not updatable
- --disable-ssl-strict
- Ignore SSL strict checks when downloading files
- --filter
- Filter with a set of device flags using a ~ prefix to exclude, e.g. 'internal,~needs-reboot'
This tool allows an administrator to query and control the fwupd daemon, allowing them to perform actions such as installing or downgrading firmware.