{"id":6567,"date":"2017-02-21T15:39:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2017-02-21T15:39:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T15:39:16","slug":"install-kernel-4-10-ubuntu-linux-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/install-kernel-4-10-ubuntu-linux-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Kernel 4.10 in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kernel-icon-tux.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/kernel-icon-tux.png\" alt=\"Linux Kernel\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5727\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linus Torvalds announced the final release of Kernel 4.10 days ago. He wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2017\/2\/19\/224\" target=\"_blank\">lkml.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So there it is, the final 4.10 release. It&#8217;s been quiet since rc8, but we did end up fixing several small issues, so the extra week was all<br \/>\ngood.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole, 4.10 didn&#8217;t end up as small as it initially looked. After the huge release that was 4.9, I expected things to be pretty<br \/>\nquiet, but it ended up very much a fairly average release by modern kernel standards. So we have about 13,000 commits (not counting merges &#8211; that would be another 1200+ commits if you count those). The work is all over, obviously &#8211; the shortlog below is just the changes in the<br \/>\nlast week, since rc8.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Linux Kernel 4.10 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initial mainline GVT-g graphics virtualization support<\/li>\n<li>Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 support.<\/li>\n<li>EXT4 DAX iomap support and XFS iomap support.<\/li>\n<li>Better Microsoft Surface 3\/4 support. Wacom MobileStudio Pro class of drawing tablets support\n<\/li>\n<li>Nouveau Boost support<\/li>\n<li>More ARM platform support, better Raspberry Pi 3 support.<\/li>\n<li>and many other changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Kernel 4.10 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The Ubuntu Kernel Team has made the DEB packages for the new kernel, available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Download Kernel 4.10 (deb)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><b>NOTE<\/b> that Canonical does not support these Kernel packages. They are not appropriate for production use.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>For the Desktop users, you can also use <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/02\/ukuu-install-latest-kernels-ubuntu-linux-mint\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Ukuu<\/b> a simple graphical tool to install the latest kernels<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu Server or those who prefer the command line, install them via following commands:<\/p>\n<p><i>For 64-bit system:<\/i><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">\n\ncd \/tmp\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000_4.10.0-041000.201702191831_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic_4.10.0-041000.201702191831_amd64.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/linux-image-4.10.0-041000-generic_4.10.0-041000.201702191831_amd64.deb\n\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n<p><i>For 32-bit system:<\/i><\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">\n\ncd \/tmp\/\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000_4.10.0-041000.201702191831_all.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/linux-headers-4.10.0-041000-generic_4.10.0-041000.201702191831_i386.deb\n\nwget http:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v4.10\/linux-image-4.10.0-041000-generic_4.10.0-041000.201702191831_i386.deb\n\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n<p>After installed these debs, restart and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To remove Linux Kernel 4.10, you may first restart and select boot with previous kernel (from Grub boot-loader -> Advanced Options) and then run command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.10* linux-image-4.10*<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus Torvalds announced the final release of Kernel 4.10 days ago. He wrote on lkml.org: So there it is, the final 4.10 release. It&#8217;s been quiet since rc8, but we did end up fixing several small issues, so the extra week was all good. On the whole, 4.10 didn&#8217;t end up as small as it [&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],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-linux-kernel"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","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=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}