Bug 449675

Summary:	Apper does not show available firmware updates
Product:	[Unmaintained] apper	Reporter:	myndstream
Component:	general	Assignee:	Daniel Nicoletti <dantti12>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description myndstream 2022-02-05 23:44:31 UTC

SUMMARY
It should show available firmware updates that are recommended/good to install

Currently one has to use the command fwupdmgr update to do so.
See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/

Maybe there are also some additional ways to update more firmware that fwupdmgr can't yet do.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. On Debian11 try to update firmware with Apper

OBSERVED RESULT
No firmware updates are shown despite updates being available according to fwupdmgr update

EXPECTED RESULT
Apper should display these updates in the Updates or have a button to separately check for firmware updates. Security could be an issue so integrity of these updates should be ensured in a way at least as good as packages in the Debian repos.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian 11
KDE Plasma Version: 5.20.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.78.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Comment 1 myndstream 2022-02-07 17:41:23 UTC

Apper could show these updates if fwupd is installed. If it is not installed, there could be texts that say "Please install fwupd to also search for available firmware updates".

Moreover, this would benefit from fwupd being installed by default on Debian/KDE and I asked about that here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1005134

Comment 2 myndstream 2022-05-10 11:07:11 UTC

The issue now is: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1010490

The vulnerability remains open.

Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2025-06-10 18:22:48 UTC

This project is unfortunately no longer maintained.

If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here:

https://invent.kde.org/system/apper

You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived.

Sorry for the inconveniences.