{"id":4592,"date":"2015-01-28T15:41:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2015-01-28T15:41:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T15:41:19","slug":"upgrade-linux-kernel-3-18-4-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/01\/upgrade-linux-kernel-3-18-4-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install \/ Upgrade to Linux Kernel 3.18.4 in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Linux<\/a><\/p>\n

The latest Linux Kernel 3.18.4 has been released. All users of 3.18 kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible.<\/b><\/p>\n

The kernel 3.18.4 is a big release that brings architecture updates for x86 and ARM, driver updates for i915, radeon, wireless, and ethernet, various USB fixes, and more. For details, see the release note<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Upgrade to Kernel 3.18.4 in Ubuntu 14.04\/ 14.10:<\/h5>\n

Ubuntu Kernel team has made the binary packages of this kernel release, available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n

DOWNLOAD KERNEL 3.18.4 .DEBs<\/a><\/p>\n

First check out your OS type, 32-bit (i386)<\/i> or 64-bit (amd64)<\/i>, then download and install the packages below in turn:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. linux-headers-3.18.4-031804_xxx_all.deb<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. linux-headers-3.18.4-031804-generic_3.18.4-031804.xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. linux-image-3.18.4-031804-generic_3.18.4-031804.xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you need a low latency system (e.g. for recording audio) then download and install the packages below in turn:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. linux-headers-3.18.4-031804_xxx_all.deb<\/i><\/li>\n
    2. linux-headers-3.18.4-031804-lowlatency_3.18.4-031804.xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n
    3. linux-image-3.18.4-031804-lowlatency_3.18.4-031804.xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      For Ubuntu Server edition without a graphical session<\/b>, run below commands one by one to download & install the kernel debs:<\/p>\n

      For 64-bit system, run:<\/p>\n

      cd \/tmp\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.18.4-vivid\/linux-headers-3.18.4-031804-generic_3.18.4-031804.201501271243_amd64.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.18.4-vivid\/linux-headers-3.18.4-031804_3.18.4-031804.201501271243_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.18.4-vivid\/linux-image-3.18.4-031804-generic_3.18.4-031804.201501271243_amd64.deb\n\nsudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.18.4-*.deb linux-image-3.18.4-*.deb<\/pre>\n
      For 32-bit system, run:<\/p>\n
      cd \/tmp\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.18.4-vivid\/linux-headers-3.18.4-031804-generic_3.18.4-031804.201501271243_i386.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.18.4-vivid\/linux-headers-3.18.4-031804_3.18.4-031804.201501271243_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v3.18.4-vivid\/linux-image-3.18.4-031804-generic_3.18.4-031804.201501271243_i386.deb\n\nsudo dpkg -i linux-headers-3.18.4-*.deb linux-image-3.18.4-*.deb<\/pre>\n
      Once done, restart the machine. For proprietary graphics driver, you may have to re-install\/re-built your driver.<\/p>\n
      If for some reason, the new kernel does not work properly for you, reboot with the previous Kernel (Grub boot loader -> Advanced -> select previous kernel) and run below command to remove Linux Kernel 3.18.4:<\/p>\n
      sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-3.18.4-* linux-image-3.18.4-* && sudo update-grub<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      The latest Linux Kernel 3.18.4 has been released. All users of 3.18 kernel series are urged to upgrade as soon as possible. The kernel 3.18.4 is a big release that brings architecture updates for x86 and ARM, driver updates for i915, radeon, wireless, and ethernet, various USB fixes, and more. For details, see the release […]<\/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":[14,1182],"class_list":["post-4592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-linux-kernel","tag-linux-kernel-3-18-series"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592","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=4592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}