fwupdtool - Man Page
Standalone firmware update utility
Description
Usage
fwupdtool [OPTIONâ.¦]
- activate [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Activate pending devices
- attach DEVICE-ID|GUID
Attach to firmware mode
- bind-driver SUBSYSTEM DRIVER [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Bind new kernel driver
- build-firmware FILE-IN FILE-OUT [SCRIPT] [OUTPUT]
Build firmware using a sandbox
- detach DEVICE-ID|GUID
Detach to bootloader mode
- esp-list
Lists files on the ESP
- esp-mount
Mounts the ESP
- esp-unmount
Unmounts the ESP
- export-hwids HWIDS-FILE
Save a file that allows generation of hardware IDs
- firmware-build BUILDER-XML FILENAME-DST
Build a firmware file
- firmware-convert FILENAME-SRC FILENAME-DST [FIRMWARE-TYPE-SRC] [FIRMWARE-TYPE-DST]
Convert a firmware file
- firmware-dump FILENAME [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Read a firmware blob from a device
- firmware-extract FILENAME [FIRMWARE-TYPE]
Extract a firmware blob to images
- firmware-parse FILENAME [FIRMWARE-TYPE]
Parse and show details about a firmware file
- get-details
Gets details about a firmware file
- get-device-flags
Get all device flags supported by fwupd
- get-devices
Get all devices that support firmware updates
- get-firmware-types
List the available firmware types
- get-history
Show history of firmware updates
- get-plugins
Get all enabled plugins registered with the system
- get-remotes
Gets the configured remotes
- get-topology
Alias to get-devices
- get-updates [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Gets the list of updates for connected hardware
- get-upgrades [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Alias to get-updates
- hwids [SMBIOS-FILE|HWIDS-FILE]
Return all the hardware IDs for the machine
- install FILE [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Install a firmware file on this hardware
- install-blob FILENAME DEVICE-ID
Install a firmware blob on a device
- monitor
Monitor the daemon for events
- refresh
Refresh metadata from remote server
- reinstall DEVICE-ID|GUID
Reinstall firmware on a device
- security
Gets the host security attributes
- self-sign TEXT
Sign data using the client certificate
- smbios-dump FILE
Dump SMBIOS data from a file
- switch-branch [DEVICE-ID|GUID] [BRANCH]
Switch the firmware branch on the device
- unbind-driver [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Unbind current driver
- update [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Update all devices that match local metadata
- upgrade [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Alias to update
- verify-update [DEVICE-ID|GUID]
Update the stored metadata with current contents
- watch
Watch for hardware changes
Help Options
- -h, --help
Show help options
- --help-all
Show all help options
Application Options
- --version
Show client and daemon versions
- --allow-reinstall
Allow reinstalling existing firmware versions
- --allow-older
Allow downgrading firmware versions
- --allow-branch-switch
Allow switching firmware branch
- --force
Force the action by relaxing some runtime checks
- --ignore-checksum
Ignore firmware checksum failures
- --ignore-vid-pid
Ignore firmware hardware mismatch failures
- --ignore-power
Ignore requirement of external power source
- --no-reboot-check
Do not check for reboot after update
- --no-safety-check
Do not perform device safety checks
- --show-all
Show all results
- --plugins
Manually enable specific plugins
- --prepare
Run the plugin composite prepare routine when using install-blob
- --cleanup
Run the plugin composite cleanup routine when using install-blob
- --enable-json-state
Save device state into a JSON file between executions
- --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'
- -v, --verbose
Show debugging information for all domains
- --no-timestamp
Do not include timestamp prefix
- --no-domain
Do not include log domain prefix
- --plugin-verbose=PLUGIN-NAME
Show plugin verbose information
- --daemon-verbose=DOMAIN
Show daemon verbose information for a particular domain
This tool allows an administrator to use the fwupd plugins without being installed on the host system.