fwupd software package provides Firmware update daemon, you can install in your Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install fwupd
fwupd is installed in your system.
Make ensure the fwupd package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep fwupd *
You will get with fwupd package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 16 04 lts xenial xerus |
| Section | Administration Utilities |
| Package | fwupd |
| Version | 0.7.0-0ubuntu4 |
| Description | Firmware update daemon |
| Sub Section | admin |