[PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

[Russell Senior]

You should search for "linux-image-5.3". In ubuntu land, i've seen
references to hwe (hardware-enablement or something) used for supporting
new hardware on older releases.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:59 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:23:02 -0800 (PST)
> Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> dijo:
>
> >On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> >
> >> Another option that I have considered is to upgrade my 4.15 kernel
> >> to 5.2 right now, and otherwise stick with 18.04. Is this possible?
> >> And if so, is there a 'for dummies' guide somewhere?
>
> >If Xubuntu has the kernels as pre-built, ready-to-install packages you
> >should be able to do so.
> >
> >On Slackware the current kernel is 4.4.202 but my Ryzen desktop needs
> >4.18 or higher so I have 4.19.84 installed on it. Here, there are 6
> >packages for the kernel: kernel-firmware, kernel-generic,
> >kernel-headers, kernel-huge, kernel-modules, and kernel-source. If
> >your repo has these (or an equivalent set of modules) they _should_ be
> >upgadeable on your system.
>
> I opened Synaptic and searched package name and description for
> 'kernel.' That resulted in only a few packages, and none started with
> 'kernel.' I think here the package name starts with 'linux-,' and
> searching on that resulted in 5314 packages. including a lot with 5.3
> in the name. I am guess that this means that the packages necessary to
> install 5.3 are in the repositories, but which of the hundred+ with 5.3
> in the name I need to install remains a mystery.
>
> I'm going to ask next on the Ubuntu forums.
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