Gnome-firmware-update

[antpanlinux]

https://gitlab.gnome.org/hughsie/gnome-firmware-updater
it could be interesting for Librem5?

[Quarnero]

I might bet PureOS need to stay within firmware-linux-free package borders, however perhaps someone have more time (as I don’t) to test (manage UEFI firmware updates) following options:

One (current Debian main repo):
~$ sudo apt install fwupd-amd64-signed
~$ sudo fwupdmgr --help
~$ sudo fwupdmgr get-devices

fwupd/fwupd

Two (Snapcraft):

Install fwupd for Linux using the Snap Store | Snapcraft

~$ sudo apt install gnome-software-plugin-snap
~$ sudo snap install fwupd --classic

Three (future, as requires Debian Sid main repo):
~$ sudo apt install gnome-firmware (GTK front end for fwupd)

Four (Flathub):
~$ flatpak install org.freedesktop.fwupd

or (as OP initially linked to):

~$ flatpak install org.gnome.Firmware

If not pleased:
~$ flatpak remove org.gnome.Firmware
~$ flatpak remove org.gnome.Platform (3.34)
~$ flatpak remove org.freedesktop.fwupd

This is only a draft (not an answer) from my side, but will be pleased to get some news if this (which option, if any) can be useful, as OP asked/recommended (even if fwupd needs to be avoided). Also, if this should work (with time) just with UEFI someone might give an answer anyway.

P.S. @antpanlinux, maybe you should move this to PureOS category (topics).

[rugk]

I’ve asked the same in the past already. Here is a thread about it in general (for laptops or so):

Submit firmware to "Linux Vendor Firmware Service" (LVFS) for easy updating

Maybe some Linux users do not yet know the Linux Vendor Firmware Service. However, it’s a great combined effort (as per this whitepaper also on the freedesktop.org site) to be able to update flashable devices in your devices, without having to boot Windows/Mac OS or so. Well… in any case, what maters is that you get firmware updates on many Linux distros. Here e.g. with GNOME (thus it could also look like this in PureOS): [image] Or KDE: [image] More information for end users are here. (s…

[Captain_Morgan]

@Quarnero

~$ sudo snap install fwupd --classic

Thanks for the instructions but fwupd has apparently not been compiled for arm64 yet using snap, using the other method results in an install but gnome-firmware reports the L5 is an unsupported device.

Have you gotten it to work properly, any tricks?

[Quarnero]

@Captain_Morgan

any tricks?

Not really, wasn’t focused in this direction at all. Anyway, here is where I found (as of today) this Debian EFI package:
bullseye/arm64/fwupd/download = fwupd_1.5.7-4_arm64.deb
bookworm/arm64/fwupd/download = fwupd_1.7.6-1_arm64.deb

You might test if dpkg -i fwupd_1.5.7-4_arm64.deb works for some particular purpose or just wait for PureOS developers to make some move in this direction (if and when needed).

[Captain_Morgan]

There are a bunch of unmet dependencies that cant be resolved- fixed automatically.

1. libfwupdplugin5, 2
2. libflashrom1

And unmet dependencies there once i try to install those arm64 deb files manually.

[Quarnero]

@Captain_Morgan

unmet dependencies

Sure, I was aware you’ll see them. Only bookworm (not octarine repo from PureOS at this point of time) might solve this. I’ll test something tomorrow (and be back if success).

[Quarnero]

@Captain_Morgan, I’ve managed to install fwupd package on Librem 5, from amber main, but do not think or even know if it is needed or even related to … There wasn’t any usable response from: sudo fwupdmgr refresh.