How To Install fwupd-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupd-doc on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is fwupd-doc
fwupd-doc is:
fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware. You can either use a GUI software manager like GNOME Software to view and apply updates, the command-line tool or the system D-Bus interface directly. Firmware updates are supported for a variety of technologies. See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd for details
This package provides development documentation for creating a package that uses fwupd.
Package: fwupd-doc Architecture: all Version: 1.3.9-4ubuntu0.1 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: doc Source: fwupd Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian EFI [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1690 Filename: pool/main/f/fwupd/fwupd-doc_1.3.9-4ubuntu0.1_all.deb Size: 96504 MD5sum: cc4b04035e5d969c245c6cf7803e5931 SHA1: fa4c1698884c62ae9fea6026124a3b1e6018a061 SHA256: 7a69220fff052382784b3a27e2a8009805e12cb6bc41a49bc0f5b9cbe70a715b SHA512: 9e707744f2a1892dba0207b4a5c127950ffa2b2c5f66268944b6dfa1b46d0e1b6a48e495e5d869ce885e7f7158a42fa9d7685b75c8046ab64310e2e6b7ce822b Homepage: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd Description-en: Firmware update daemon documentation (HTML format) fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware. You can either use a GUI software manager like GNOME Software to view and apply updates, the command-line tool or the system D-Bus interface directly. Firmware updates are supported for a variety of technologies. See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd for details
This package provides development documentation for creating a package that uses fwupd.
Package: fwupd-doc Architecture: all Version: 1.3.9-4 Multi-Arch: foreign Priority: optional Section: doc Source: fwupd Origin: Ubuntu Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers [email protected] Original-Maintainer: Debian EFI [email protected] Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug Installed-Size: 1690 Filename: pool/main/f/fwupd/fwupd-doc_1.3.9-4_all.deb Size: 96508 MD5sum: 9749e22976f4b566ba396629352bb8b2 SHA1: 449ed931df68e8c6f4c23e5fdfdd292016130f85 SHA256: 8a221352cff99f07a5d4abdecb3a57df0e6cd0e886fe896b062e52307cdcaae5 Homepage: https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd Description-en: Firmware update daemon documentation (HTML format) fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware. You can either use a GUI software manager like GNOME Software to view and apply updates, the command-line tool or the system D-Bus interface directly. Firmware updates are supported for a variety of technologies. See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd for details
This package provides development documentation for creating a package that uses fwupd.
There are three methods to install fwupd-doc on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install fwupd-doc Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install fwupd-doc using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fwupd-doc
Install fwupd-doc Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fwupd-doc using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fwupd-doc
Install fwupd-doc Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install fwupd-doc using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fwupd-doc
How To Uninstall fwupd-doc on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the fwupd-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fwupd-doc
Uninstall fwupd-doc And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fwupd-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fwupd-doc
Remove fwupd-doc Configurations and Data
To remove fwupd-doc configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fwupd-doc
Remove fwupd-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fwupd-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fwupd-doc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupd-doc package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
