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Eduardo Fernandes
Asked: 2015-05-16 09:28:11 +0800 CST

Updated kernel with dpkg but old kernel still in use

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I needed to update my systems kernel to the latest available version, so I executed

   sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.16.0-37-generic
   sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-3.13.0-37*

Then I rebooted.

But uname -r still shows 3.13.0-37-generic

And theres no way I can update the kernels.

What am I doing wrong?

kernel

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You did not install kernel, only headers.

    If you want to upgrade kernel to 3.16 on Ubuntu 14.04 the correct way is this:

    sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-utopic

    The meta package will pull both headers and image. This way kernels will be upgraded through routine process.

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