How To Install fwupd-unsigned on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupd-unsigned
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is fwupd-unsigned
fwupd-unsigned 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 the EFI binaries used for UEFI capsule updates
There are three methods to install fwupd-unsigned
on Ubuntu 22.04. 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-unsigned 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-unsigned
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install fwupd-unsigned
Install fwupd-unsigned Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install fwupd-unsigned
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install fwupd-unsigned
Install fwupd-unsigned 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-unsigned
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install fwupd-unsigned
How To Uninstall fwupd-unsigned on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the fwupd-unsigned
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove fwupd-unsigned
Uninstall fwupd-unsigned And Its Dependencies
To uninstall fwupd-unsigned
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove fwupd-unsigned
Remove fwupd-unsigned Configurations and Data
To remove fwupd-unsigned
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge fwupd-unsigned
Remove fwupd-unsigned configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove fwupd-unsigned
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge fwupd-unsigned
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install fwupd-unsigned
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.