{"id":5552,"date":"2016-01-11T12:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T12:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2016-01-11T12:42:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T12:42:56","slug":"how-to-install-linux-kernel-4-4-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/01\/how-to-install-linux-kernel-4-4-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Linux Kernel 4.4 in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/linux-kernel-icon-tux.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/linux-kernel-icon-tux.png\" alt=\"upgrade Linux Kernel\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/linux-kernel-icon-tux.png 245w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/linux-kernel-icon-tux-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linus Torvalds finally announced the release of Linux Kernel 4.4 yesterday afternoon. He wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2016\/1\/10\/305\" target=\"_blank\">LKML<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Nothing untoward happened this week, so Linux-4.4 is out in all the usual places.<\/p>\n<p>The changes since rc8 aren&#8217;t big. There&#8217;s about one third arch updates, one third drivers, and one third &#8220;misc&#8221; (mainly some core kernel and networking), But it&#8217;s all small. Notable might be unbreaking the x86-32 &#8220;sysenter&#8221; ABI, when somebody (*cough*android-x86*cough*) misused it by not using the vdso and<br \/>\ninstead using the instruction directly.<\/p>\n<p>Full shortlog appended for people who care or are just curious.<\/p>\n<p>And with this, the merge window for 4.5 is obviously open, even if I won&#8217;t start actually pulling until tomorrow.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><b>Linux Kernel 4.4 features:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>initial AMD Stoney APU Support<\/li>\n<li>numerous AMD GPU additions for AMD Carrizo, Tonga, or Fiji graphics processor<\/li>\n<li>Raspberry Pi KMS driver for kernel mode-setting<\/li>\n<li>VirGL VirtIO 3D GPU driver added to Gallium3D<\/li>\n<li>many Network, WiFi, and eBPF updates<\/li>\n<li>64-bit ARM updates, nouveau improvements, and much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to Install Kernel 4.4 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu Kernel Team has made the binaries a few hours ago, available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download Linux Kernel 4.4 DEBs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You may first check out your OS type, <i>32-bit<\/i> or <i>64-bit<\/i>, <i>(also arm, ppc64 packages available)<\/i> then download and install below packages one by one:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><i>linux-headers-4.4.0-xxx_all.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>linux-headers-4.4.0-xxx-generic_xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>linux-image-4.4.0-xxx-generic_xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you need a low latency system (e.g. for recording audio) then download &#038; install below packages instead:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><i>linux-headers-4.4.0_xxx_all.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>linux-headers-4.4.0-xxx-lowlatency_xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<li><i>linux-image-4.4.0-xxx-lowlatency_xxx_i386\/amd64.deb<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>For Ubuntu Server or those who prefer Linux commands<\/b>, run below commands one by one to download and install the kernel binaries:<\/p>\n<p>For 64-bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">cd \/tmp\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_amd64.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/linux-image-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_amd64.deb\n\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n<p>For 32-bit system:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">cd \/tmp\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/linux-headers-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_i386.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.4-wily\/linux-image-4.4.0-040400-generic_4.4.0-040400.201601101930_i386.deb\n\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n<p>Restart computer after installation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall the 4.4 Kernel:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For any reason you want to remove this kernel, restart your computer and select boot with the previous Kernel (under Advanced Options) when you&#8217;re at Grub boot menu, after logged in run below command in a terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.4.0-* linux-image-4.4.0-*; sudo update-grub<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds finally announced the release of Linux Kernel 4.4 yesterday afternoon. He wrote on LKML: Nothing untoward happened this week, so Linux-4.4 is out in all the usual places. The changes since rc8 aren&#8217;t big. There&#8217;s about one third arch updates, one third drivers, and one third &#8220;misc&#8221; (mainly some core kernel and networking), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-linux-kernel"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","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=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}