Dell Firmware Updates Might Be Missing in Software?

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Normally in Gnome, I can see that it is providing firmware updates for my specific Dell XPS 13 model. I do not see that in the zorin gnome software.

I tried to fix this by installing uefi-uw-tools from the software store -- but now when I go to update the software store it throughs an error "AppArmor policy prevents sender..." that's clearly blocking fwupd.

Does ZorinOS have it's own automatic way to make sure the firmware & BIOS can be kept up to date on my specific laptop (Dell XPS 13 9300)? If so, is there a way to check to make sure that is working? If not, is there a workaround, given that installing uefi-uw-tools is not working?

I see other options in software include gnome-firmware, and fwupd. Not sure if one of those should be tried/used?

Thanks!

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oh sure, sorry I forgot to mention that! Zorin 16 beta -- so Ubuntu 20.04 based

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Thank you! The terminal commands were nice. Looks like everything IS up to date. Hopefully that means that ZorinOS16 does it automatically -- I just can't see it. But regardless, I can always do the terminal commands.

Thanks!

For anyone else's future reference for ease:
sudo fwupdmgr get-devices
sudo fwupdmgr get-updates
sudo fwupdmgr update

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