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GNOME software center tells me this needs an update but it doesn't do anything when clicking download, how can I update this? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

It's in the firmware category, i.e. it comes from LVFS. It's neither a Flatpak nor a DEB/RPM/... package. Many of these, I believe are actually exe files for DOS (happy to be corected on this, it's a while since I last read Richard Hughes's blog).

Iirc, GNOME Software is plug-in-based and the Flatpak plug-in is just one of the plug-ins.

[–] Successful_Try543@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So fwupdmgr takes care of this on the command line?

[–] federalreverse@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

I think GNOME Software uses some fwupd library rather than the straight-up command-line fwupdmgr, but yeah, basically.

[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

At least the Debian package depends on both, the library libfwupd2 and fwupd. So fwupdmgr should be present too (depending on how the used distribution handles these dependencies).