How to Install and Uninstall fwupdate Package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Last updated: January 11,2025

1. Install "fwupdate" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install fwupdate on Debian 10 (Buster)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                fwupdate
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fwupdate" package

Please follow the guidance below to uninstall fwupdate on Debian 10 (Buster):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                fwupdate
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fwupdate package on Debian 10 (Buster)

Package: fwupdate
Version: 12-4+deb10u4
Installed-Size: 167
Maintainer: Debian EFI
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libefiboot1 (>= 37), libefivar1 (>= 37), libfwup1 (= 12-4+deb10u4), libpopt0 (>= 1.14), libsmbios-c2, efibootmgr, e2fsprogs
Recommends: fwupdate-signed
Description: Tools to manage UEFI firmware updates
Description-md5: c71beb93c936676e2ac6515b655803f8
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/rhinstaller/fwupdate
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/f/fwupdate/fwupdate_12-4+deb10u4_amd64.deb
Size: 47464
MD5sum: 68e58b43d23bf973d26a3ed0b3e110a1
SHA256: e17a6163874a354feed026871886f0e46df17ada1453769d197cd056ac79a876