{"id":9760,"date":"2020-01-28T15:54:26","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=9760"},"modified":"2024-04-24T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T13:34:24","slug":"install-kernel-5-5-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/01\/install-kernel-5-5-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Linux Kernel 5.5 in Ubuntu \/ Linux Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4345\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/linux-kernel-icon-tux.png\" alt=\"upgrade Linux Kernel\" width=\"245\" height=\"245\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linux Kernel 5.5 was announced two days ago. Linus Torvalds wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2020\/1\/26\/232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lkml.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<i>So this last week was pretty quiet, and while we had a late network update with some (mainly iwl wireless) network driver and netfilter module loading fixes, David didn&#8217;t think that warranted another -rc. And outside of that, it&#8217;s really been very quiet indeed &#8211; there&#8217;s a panfrost driver update too, but again it didn&#8217;t really seem to make sense to delay the final release by another week.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kernel 5.5 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for the Broadcom BCM2711 SoC (Raspberry Pi 4).<\/li>\n<li>New Logitech driver for G15 and G510 keyboard.<\/li>\n<li>KVM support for IBM POWER secure guests\/VMs.<\/li>\n<li>Initial Intel Jasper Lake support.<\/li>\n<li>Intel 5-level paging support is enabled by default<\/li>\n<li>AMD OverDrive overclocking for Navi GPUs.<\/li>\n<li>and much more other changes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to Install Linux Kernel 5.5 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Kernel\/MainlineBuilds\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mainline kernels<\/a> do not include any Ubuntu-provided drivers or patches. They are not supported and are not appropriate for production use<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The mainline kernel packages for Linux 5.5 are available for download at the link below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href='https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.5\/' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Kernel 5.5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Depends on your OS type, download and install the packages in turns:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>linux-headers-5.5.0-xxxxxx_all.deb<\/li>\n<li>linux-headers-5.5.0-xxx-generic(\/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb<\/li>\n<li>linux-modules-5.5.0-xxx-generic(\/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb<\/li>\n<li>linux-image-xxx-5.5.0-xxx-generic(\/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><i>Select <code>generic<\/code> for common system, and <code>lowlatency<\/code> for a low latency system (e.g. for recording audio), <code>amd64<\/code> for 64bit system, or armhf, arm64, etc for other OS types.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively you can download and install the kernel binaries via terminal commands ( open terminal via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>):<\/p>\n<p>For 64-bit OS:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">cd \/tmp\/\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.5\/linux-headers-5.5.0-050500_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_all.deb\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.5\/linux-headers-5.5.0-050500-generic_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_amd64.deb\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.5\/linux-image-unsigned-5.5.0-050500-generic_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_amd64.deb\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.5\/linux-modules-5.5.0-050500-lowlatency_5.5.0-050500.202001262030_amd64.deb\r\n\r\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n<p>Note that there&#8217;s no Kernel 5.5 packages for 32-bit system.<\/p>\n<p>Once installed, restart your computer and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall Linux Kernel 5.5:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Restart your machine and select boot with the previous kernel in boot menu \u2018Grub2 -&gt; Advanced Option for Ubuntu\u2019. Then run command to remove Linux Kernel 5.5:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border: none;\">sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-unsigned-5.5.0-050500-generic<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Kernel 5.5 was announced two days ago. Linus Torvalds wrote on lkml.org: &#8220;So this last week was pretty quiet, and while we had a late network update with some (mainly iwl wireless) network driver and netfilter module loading fixes, David didn&#8217;t think that warranted another -rc. And outside of that, it&#8217;s really been very [&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":[160,14],"class_list":["post-9760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-kernel","tag-linux-kernel"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760","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=9760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}