Updated CLI install guide info for fwupd bug in Debian-based distros

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<section id="working-around-fwupd-bug-on-linux-distributions">
<h2><a href="#working-around-fwupd-bug-on-linux-distributions">Working around fwupd bug on Linux distributions</a></h2>
<p>Debian stable and Ubuntu have an outdated fwupd package with a bug breaking
connecting to Android's bootloader interface (fastboot) while fwupd is running
since it tries to connect to arbitrary devices. This section can be skipped on
Arch Linux and other distributions with fwupd 1.9.10 or later since we reported
the bug and it was fixed. This never impacted Android or ChromeOS.</p>
<p>Some Debian, Ubuntu, and derivative distributions have an outdated fwupd package
with a bug breaking connecting to Android's bootloader interface (fastboot) while
fwupd is running since it tries to connect to arbitrary devices. This section can
be skipped on Arch Linux and other distributions with fwupd 1.9.10 or later since
we reported the bug and it was fixed. This never impacted Android or ChromeOS.</p>
<p>You can stop fwupd with the following command:</p>
<p>Check your fwupd version with the following command:</p>
<pre>apt-cache policy fwupd</pre>
<p>If you have a fwupd version earlier than 1.9.10, you can stop fwupd with the
following command:</p>
<pre>sudo systemctl stop fwupd.service</pre>