fwupdtool(1)

💖 fwupdtool(1) — standalone firmware update utility 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the fwupdtool page ✨ this is the manual for the standalone firmware update utility, and honestly? she's iconic 💅

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🌸 NAME 🌸

fwupdtool — standalone firmware update utility 🫶

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

fwupdtool [CMD]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the way this works is: this tool lets an administrator use fwupd plugins directly, no daemon process involved 🧚 which can be faster or easier to use when you're creating or debugging specific plugins. lowkey a debugging queen 👑

but listen — for most end-users, fwupdmgr is a more suitable program to use in almost all cases. not me telling you to go read a different manpage, but like, i am telling you that 🙈

Additionally, fwupdtool can be used to convert firmware from various different formats, or to modify the images contained inside the container firmware file. for example, you can convert DFU or Intel HEX firmware into the vendor-specific format. it's giving format-shifter energy ✨🔥

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

the fwupdtool command takes various options depending on the action, so it's not a one-size-fits-all sitch. run this for the full list:

fwupdtool --help

Note that some runtime failures can be ignored using --force or --ignore-requirements. (yes she said ignore, no we are not going to talk about the consequences 😭)

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👑 EXIT STATUS 👑

commands that successfully execute will return 0, with generic failure as 1. the duality of woman 💀

there are also several other exit codes used:

1. A return code of 2 is used for commands that have no actions but were successfully executed — she did nothing and she slayed 🌈
2. 3 is used when a resource was not found — the resource said "not today bestie" 🎀

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🍓 BUGS 🍓

see GitHub Issues: <https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/issues>

go report it, go go go 🫶 (but like, be nice, they're doing their best)

fr fr if something's broken this is where you tell them, not in my DMs 💜

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• fwupdmgr(1)
• fwupd.conf(5)

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and that's the whole page bestie, you ate that 💅✨ this was version 2.1.9 of the fwupdtool standalone firmware update utility man page — no cap, go update your firmware responsibly 🦋🎀💖