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. currently, firmware updates using the uefi capsule format and for the colorhug are supported. more formats may be supported in the future. see <https://github.com/hughsie/fwupd> for details

this package provides the library used by the daemon.