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In Ubuntu MATE 20.04 a Firmware Updater is integrated, it is a GTK front end for fwupd. And I wonder whether there is such thing for the Vanilla Ubuntu GNOME.

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  1. Firmware Updater
    An new firmware updater UI made with Flutter and based on fwupd is included in Ubuntu 23.10 onwards, it displays firmware updates, and is able to upgrade firmware too — all fetched from the LVFS.
    Canonical has been working on this new firmware-updater app for some years: https://github.com/canonical/firmware-updater
    It can also be downloaded/installed from the Snap Store in previous Ubuntu versions, but with mixed results ...

  2. GNOME Firmware (gnome-firmware): Available in the Software Center (as deb package from Ubuntu 20.04 onwards, in the universe repository* and snap):
    GTK front end for fwupd. It can update, reinstall and downgrade firmware on devices supported by fwupd. enter image description here To install it from the command line (Terminal):
    For the deb package (Ubuntu 20.04 and newer): sudo apt install gnome-firmware
    For the snap app: sudo snap install gnome-firmware
    There is a also flatpak version.
    It seems that there is still room for improvement of the app, though. Therefore it could be still better to update the firmware from the command line.

  3. For some devices, firmware updates are directly listed in GNOME Software. enter image description here

*Thank you N0rbert for the hint!

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    FYI - the deb-package is also available. – N0rbert May 13 '20 at 12:05
  • Thank you, @Jan for the feedback although it is not an encouraging one. At least it looks like the app is under construction as the last update was a month ago and the activity on https://github.com/canonical/firmware-updater/activity is steady although the last one is already a month ago ... – Filbuntu Sep 17 '23 at 12:57
  • Apologies for the harsh report, my bad. I really appreciate that folks are working on it! I've been dealing with lots of bugs in software as of late, and I tilted a bit. Again apologies. – Jan Sep 23 '23 at 14:42
  • @Jan I understand your frustrations. If you like, you can always delete a comment (like I will do in a few days when you probably have read this). Cheers! – Filbuntu Oct 12 '23 at 11:13