{"id":2516,"date":"2013-12-12T08:41:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T08:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=2516"},"modified":"2013-12-14T06:28:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T06:28:10","slug":"install-kernel-3-12-5-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/12\/install-kernel-3-12-5-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install \/ Upgrade Kernel 3.12.5 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 3.12.5\" width=\"260\" height=\"224\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1838\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The fifth maintenance release of the Linux kernel 3.12 is available now. <b>Linux Kernel 3.12.5<\/b> contains various updated drivers (networking, SCSI, USB, Xen), a couple of sound updates, and several ARM improvements. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernel.org\/pub\/linux\/kernel\/v3.x\/ChangeLog-3.12.5\" title=\"Linux Kernel 3.12.5 changlog\" target=\"_blank\">the changelog for details.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All users of the 3.12 kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here&#8217;s how to do it in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<h3>Install \/ Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.12.5:<\/h3>\n<p>1. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below to download DEBs from Ubuntu Kernel page.<\/p>\n<p>For 32 bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">cd ~\/Downloads\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12.5-trusty\/linux-headers-3.12.5-031205-generic_3.12.5-031205.201312120254_i386.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12.5-trusty\/linux-headers-3.12.5-031205_3.12.5-031205.201312120254_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12.5-trusty\/linux-image-3.12.5-031205-generic_3.12.5-031205.201312120254_i386.deb<\/pre>\n<p>For 64 bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">cd ~\/Downloads\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12.5-trusty\/linux-headers-3.12.5-031205-generic_3.12.5-031205.201312120254_amd64.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12.5-trusty\/linux-headers-3.12.5-031205_3.12.5-031205.201312120254_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.12.5-trusty\/linux-image-3.12.5-031205-generic_3.12.5-031205.201312120254_amd64.deb<\/pre>\n<p>2 Install this kernel:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">cd ~\/Downloads\/ && sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.12.5-*.deb linux-image-3.12.5-*.deb<\/pre>\n<p>If you&#8217;re using an proprietary driver, you may need to rebuild or even re-install it to make it work with the new kernel. Once done, restart your computer.<\/p>\n<p>If for some reason this kernel release does not work properly for you. Reboot into previous kernel (Grub -> Advance -> select previous kernel) and run command below to remove Linux Kernel 3.12.5:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-3.12.5-* linux-image-3.12.5-*<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fifth maintenance release of the Linux kernel 3.12 is available now. Linux Kernel 3.12.5 contains various updated drivers (networking, SCSI, USB, Xen), a couple of sound updates, and several ARM improvements. See the changelog for details. All users of the 3.12 kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. Here&#8217;s how to [&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":[14,762],"class_list":["post-2516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-linux-kernel","tag-linux-kernel-3-12-series"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516","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=2516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}