Terminal commands to install or upgrade Linux Kernel 4.7-RC4 on Ubuntu 16.04 Systems. The Linux Kernel 4.7-RC4 is a fairly normal release and brings various patches for drivers and few architecture updates. Linux Kernel 4.7 is expected to get released by 24th July 2016.
Announcing the Linux Kernel 4.7-RC5, Linux Torvalds said “It’s been a fairly normal week, and rc4 is out. Go test. The statistics look very normal: about two thirds drivers, with the rest being half architecture updates and half “misc” (small ffilesystem updates,. some documentation, and a smattering of patches elsewhere). The bulk of the driver updates are usb and gpu, but there’s iio, leds, platform drivers, dma etc). The arch updates are mostly arm, with some small x86 fixlets too. But it’s all pretty small, nothing particularly worrisome. Shortlog appended for people who want to get a feel for the kinds of things that have been happening.”
Install Linux Kernel 4.7-RC4 in Ubuntu
On 32-Bit Ubuntu Systems
Run the following commands in Terminal to download the Kernel .deb packages and then install it accordingly.
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc4-yakkety/linux-headers-4.7.0-040700rc4_4.7.0-040700rc4.201606201235_all.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc4-yakkety/linux-headers-4.7.0-040700rc4-generic_4.7.0-040700rc4.201606201235_i386.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc4-yakkety/linux-image-4.7.0-040700rc4-generic_4.7.0-040700rc4.201606201235_i386.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i 'linux-headers-4.7*.deb' 'linux-image-4.7*.deb'
On 32-Bit Ubuntu Systems
Run the following commands in Terminal to download the Kernel .deb packages and then install it accordingly.
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc4-yakkety/linux-headers-4.7.0-040700rc4_4.7.0-040700rc4.201606201235_all.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc4-yakkety/linux-headers-4.7.0-040700rc4-generic_4.7.0-040700rc4.201606201235_amd64.deb
$ wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7-rc4-yakkety/linux-image-4.7.0-040700rc4-generic_4.7.0-040700rc4.201606201235_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg -i 'linux-headers-4.7*.deb' 'linux-image-4.7*.deb'
Once the Kernel is installed, run the commands given below to update GRUB and reboot the system. While rebooting the computer, select the newly released Kernel in GRUB :
$ sudo update-grub
$ sudo reboot
Remove Kernel
If you aren’t happy with the Kernel and wish to uninstall and remove the newly installed Kernel, run the following command:
$ sudo apt-get remove 'linux-headers-4.7*' 'linux-image-4.7*'