fwupdmgr command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

fwupdmgr: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fwupdmgr: command not found

Solutions to fwupdmgr: command not found

How To Fix fwupdmgr: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fwupdmgr is provided by fwupd package.

fwupd is:

fwupd is a daemon to allow session software to update device firmware. You can either use a GUI software manager like GNOME Software to view and apply updates, the command-line tool or the system D-Bus interface directly. Firmware updates are supported for a variety of technologies. See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd for details

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install fwupd

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install fwupd.

sudo apt -y install fwupd

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install fwupd

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fwupdmgr command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.