[PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Fri Dec 20 22:21:31 UTC 2019


looks like you want: linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:18 PM Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:

> 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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