How to Install Linux Kernel 4.7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04. Linux Kernel 4.7.2 update brings various AMDGPU, PowerPC and ARM64 improvements. It also features an improved file support and an enhancement for core kernel structure.
Other changes with release are:
- Improvement to ARM64, ARC, MIPS, s390, x86 and PowerPC
- Multiple updated drivers for AMDGPU, ACPI, BCMA, Bluetooth, GPIO, CLK, CPUFreq, EDAC, Intel i915, Nouveau, Radeon, Rockchip, I2C, InfiniBand, IOMMU, MD, MFD, iwlwifi, PHY, PINCTRL, SCSI, SPI, TTY, USB and Virtio.
- Improved Btrfs, CIFS, JBD2, NFS, OverlayFS and XFS support
- Enhancement for core kernel, mm, core networking and sound track
“I’m announcing the release of the 4.7.2 kernel. All users of the 4.7 kernel series must upgrade,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman. “The updated 4.7.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git linux-4.7.y and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git;a=summary.”
Install Kernel 4.7.2
On 32 Bit
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Linux Kernel 4.7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives (32 Bit):
wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_all.deb
wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_i386.deb
wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-*4.7.2*.deb
On 64 Bit
Run the following commands in Terminal to install Linux Kernel 4.7.2 on Ubuntu 16.04 and Ubuntu Derivatives (64 Bit):
wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_all.deb
wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_amd64.deb
wget kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i linux-*4.7.2*.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