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Pawel Debski
Asked: 2020-06-11 11:16:47 +0800 CST

What is the easiest way to install kernel 5.3 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

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I have the default Ubuntu 20.04 LTS kernel installed which is currently

$ uname -r
5.4.0-7634-generic

I'd like however to install older kernel version of 5.3. I do see a package linux-image-5.3.0-7648-generic but when I try to install it Synaptic cannot find the actual package.

Do I miss some repo in /etc/apt ?

What would it be the easiest way to use 5.3 kernel and have it automagically upgraded whenever Canonical releases new 5.3.x version?

software-installation kernel 20.04

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Just download and install the kernel binaries like so:

    64-bit system:

    
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-headers-5.3.0-050300_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_all.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-headers-5.3.0-050300-generic_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_amd64.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-image-unsigned-5.3.0-050300-generic_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_amd64.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-modules-5.3.0-050300-generic_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

sudo reboot

    32-bit system:

    
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-headers-5.3.0-050300_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_all.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-headers-5.3.0-050300-generic_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_i386.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-image-5.3.0-050300-generic_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_i386.deb

wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.3/linux-modules-5.3.0-050300-generic_5.3.0-050300.201909152230_i386.deb

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

sudo reboot

    Hope that was helpful

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