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FWUPDTOOL(1) User Commands FWUPDTOOL(1)

fwupdtool - Standalone firmware update utility

fwupdtool [OPTION?]
Activate pending devices
Attach to firmware mode
Bind new kernel driver
Build firmware using a sandbox
Detach to bootloader mode
Lists files on the ESP
Mounts the ESP
Unmounts the ESP
Save a file that allows generation of hardware IDs
Build a firmware file
Convert a firmware file
Read a firmware blob from a device
Extract a firmware blob to images
Parse and show details about a firmware file
Gets details about a firmware file
Get all device flags supported by fwupd
Get all devices that support firmware updates
List the available firmware types
Show history of firmware updates
Get all enabled plugins registered with the system
Gets the configured remotes
Alias to get-devices
Gets the list of updates for connected hardware
Alias to get-updates
Return all the hardware IDs for the machine
Install a firmware file on this hardware
Install a firmware blob on a device
Monitor the daemon for events
Refresh metadata from remote server
Reinstall firmware on a device
Gets the host security attributes
Sign data using the client certificate
Dump SMBIOS data from a file
Switch the firmware branch on the device
Unbind current driver
Update all devices that match local metadata
Alias to update
Update the stored metadata with current contents
Watch for hardware changes

Show help options
Show all help options

Show client and daemon versions
Allow reinstalling existing firmware versions
Allow downgrading firmware versions
Allow switching firmware branch
Force the action by relaxing some runtime checks
Ignore firmware checksum failures
Ignore firmware hardware mismatch failures
Ignore requirement of external power source
Do not check for reboot after update
Do not perform device safety checks
Show all results
Manually enable specific plugins
Run the plugin composite prepare routine when using install-blob
Run the plugin composite cleanup routine when using install-blob
Save device state into a JSON file between executions
Ignore SSL strict checks when downloading files
Filter with a set of device flags using a ~ prefix to exclude, e.g. 'internal,~needs-reboot'
Show debugging information for all domains
Do not include timestamp prefix
Do not include log domain prefix
Show plugin verbose information
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.

May 2021 fwupdtool 1.5.7