On Ubuntu, update Kernel via command line {Ubuntu Update Kernel via Apt-Get}. Kernel 5.0-rc2 released. Here’s how to install Linux Kernel 5.0-rc2 on Ubuntu Systems. Linux Kernel 5.0-rc2 brings various filesystem improvements.
Linux 5.0-rc2
Announcing the release of Linux 5.0-rc2, Linus Torvalds wrote:
So the merge window had somewhat unusual timing with the holidays, and I was afraid that would affect stragglers in rc2, but honestly, that doesn’t seem to have happened much. rc2 looks pretty normal. Were there some missing commits that missed the merge window? Yes. But no more than usual. Things look pretty normal. What’s a bit abnormal is that I’m traveling again, and so for me it’s a Monday release, but it’s (intentionally) the usual “Sunday afternoon” release schedule back home. I’m trying to not surprise people too much. As to actual changes: all looks fairly normal. Yes, there’s a fair number of perf tooling updates, so that certainly stands out in the diffstat, but if you ignore the tooling and just look at the kernel, it’s about two thirds drivers (networking, gpu, block, scsi..), with the rest being the usual mix of arch updates (ARM, RISC-V, x86, csky), with some filesystem (btrfs, cifs) and vm fixes.
Install Linux Kernel v5.0-rc2
On 32 Bit
Run the following commands in terminal to install Linux Kernel v5.0-rc2 mainline build on 32 Bit Linux Ubuntu Systems:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc2/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc2_5.0.0-050000rc2.201901131830_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc2/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc2-generic_5.0.0-050000rc2.201901131830_i386.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc2/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc2-lowlatency_5.0.0-050000rc2.201901131830_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-5.0.0*.deb linux-image-5.0.0*.deb
sudo reboot
On 64 Bit
Run the following commands in terminal to install Linux Kernel v5.0-rc2 mainline build on 64 Bit Linux Ubuntu Systems:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc2/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc2_5.0.0-050000rc2.201901131830_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc2/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc2-generic_5.0.0-050000rc2.201901131830_arm64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.0-rc2/linux-headers-5.0.0-050000rc2-snapdragon_5.0.0-050000rc2.201901131830_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-5.0.0*.deb linux-image-5.0.0*.deb
sudo reboot
After updating Kernel, system restart is necessary.