/usr/libexec/fwupd/efi/fwupdx64.efi cannot be found

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When trying to update firmware on my Dell XPS 13 9300 I get this error

**/usr/libexec/fwupd/efi/fwupdx64.efi cannot be found
**
Various links like these
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/LVFS-Triaged-Issue:-UEFI:-fwupdx64.efi-cannot-be-found
https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/LVFS-Triaged-Issue:-OpenSuSE:-Missing-fwupdate-efi-package
suggest I need to install fwupd-efi or fwupdate-efi package

Official source doesn’t contain such package for Tumbleweed. The only one I found was
https://software.opensuse.org/package/fwupdate-efi
which only shows a community package.

What am I missing? If anyone has encountered this issue, how did you solve it?

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I am not finding that file anywhere.

There’s a copy in “/boot/efi/EFI/opensuse” with a Sept 18th date. I am not finding it anywhere else.

Looking in Leap 15.3, that file is part of the “fwupd” package. I have that package installed in Tumbleweed, but that file isn’t there as far as I can see. This must be a recent change.

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https://software.opensuse.org/package/fwupd-efi - Experimental repo:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Base:System/openSUSE_**Tumbleweed**/Base:System.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install fwupd-efi

or

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Base:System/openSUSE_**Factory**/Base:System.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install fwupd-efi
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Oh cool, thanks for finding that! I didn’t know of Base:/System, but now I’m curious, based on Show Base:System - openSUSE Build Service

This is the Base:System devel project. Its main purpose is to serve as development project for packages around the topic of the system base in the openSUSE:Factory distribution.

I don’t intend to do development on any of those packages, I just want firmware updates to work on my laptop (and don’t want possible development/experimental packages to break it). Given that, would I still be expected to have this repo added permanently going forward? Or would you consider this a bug and fwupdx64.efi should continue to be provided by the Tumbleweed release system repos, and it should be reported somewhere? Thank you for your help.

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Package was added there just 11 days ago. Give it time to find its way into Tumbleweed.

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If you want stability use Leap instead of TW.

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The package is now in tumbleweed.