{"id":2228,"date":"2013-11-13T08:54:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-13T08:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2015-07-28T16:52:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T16:52:13","slug":"kernel-3-11-8-released-install-upgrade-in-ubuntu-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/11\/kernel-3-11-8-released-install-upgrade-in-ubuntu-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Kernel 3.11.8 released, Install \/ Upgrade in Ubuntu Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LinuxKernelLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/LinuxKernelLogo.jpg\" alt=\"Linux Kernel 3.11.8\" width=\"260\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1838\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Linux Kernel 3.11.8<\/b> has been released today. All users of the 3.11 kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here&#8217;s how to download &#038; install the kernel packages in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint, Debian and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><b>Linux kernel 3.11.8<\/b> includes a few arch improvements, lots of updated drivers, including i915, Radeon, HID, Wireless, SCSI and USB, fixes to the CIFS and eCryptfs filesystems, as well as improved sound and networking. See official announcement<\/p>\n<h3>Install \/ Upgrade Kernel 3.11.8:<\/h3>\n<p>Press <u>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to download the Kernel DEBs:<\/p>\n<p>For 32 bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color:#00C000; background:#000000;\">wget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/linux-headers-3.11.8-031108-generic_3.11.8-031108.201311122252_i386.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/linux-headers-3.11.8-031108_3.11.8-031108.201311122252_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/linux-image-3.11.8-031108-generic_3.11.8-031108.201311122252_i386.deb<\/pre>\n<p>For 64 bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color:#00C000; background:#000000;\">wget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/linux-headers-3.11.8-031108-generic_3.11.8-031108.201311122252_amd64.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/linux-headers-3.11.8-031108_3.11.8-031108.201311122252_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/linux-image-3.11.8-031108-generic_3.11.8-031108.201311122252_amd64.deb<\/pre>\n<p>After that, use command below to install them and reboot your machine once done.<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color:#00C000; background:#000000;\">sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.11.8-*.deb linux-image-3.11.8-*.deb<\/pre>\n<p>If for some reason the new kernel does not work properly, boot the previous kernel from Grub boot-loader and remove Linux Kernel 3.11.8 via:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"color:#00C000; background:#000000;\">sudo apt-get purge linux-headers-3.11.8-* linux-image-3.11.8-*<\/pre>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with command line, download &#038; install the DEBs from <a href=\"http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.11.8-saucy\/\" title=\"Linux Kernel 3.11.8 DEBs download page\" target=\"_blank\">Ubuntu Kernal page.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Kernel 3.11.8 has been released today. All users of the 3.11 kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here&#8217;s how to download &#038; install the kernel packages in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint, Debian and their derivatives. Linux kernel 3.11.8 includes a few arch improvements, lots of updated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[595,14],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-kernel-3-11-series","tag-linux-kernel"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}