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on Bionic - dellBiosUpdate is missing on smbios-utils

Asked by tutelacooldouce

Hello Team ,

regarding Ubuntu 18.04 , I am wondering why the package dellBiosUpdate and dellBiosUpdate-compat are missing on the smbios-utils pkg?

- any reason for that?

Thanks

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#1

Maybe related to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=715812

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tutelacooldouce (tutelacooldouce) said : 		#2

got a reply from dell, :

 - : "It’s intentionally dropped in the latest version as Dell now does UEFI capsule updates for client systems. Server systems have their own tools released with the binary."