You should search for "linux-image-5.3". In ubuntu land, i've seen references to hwe (hardware-enablement or something) used for supporting new hardware on older releases.
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:59 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:23:02 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: > > >On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >> Another option that I have considered is to upgrade my 4.15 kernel > >> to 5.2 right now, and otherwise stick with 18.04. Is this possible? > >> And if so, is there a 'for dummies' guide somewhere? > > >If Xubuntu has the kernels as pre-built, ready-to-install packages you > >should be able to do so. > > > >On Slackware the current kernel is 4.4.202 but my Ryzen desktop needs > >4.18 or higher so I have 4.19.84 installed on it. Here, there are 6 > >packages for the kernel: kernel-firmware, kernel-generic, > >kernel-headers, kernel-huge, kernel-modules, and kernel-source. If > >your repo has these (or an equivalent set of modules) they _should_ be > >upgadeable on your system. > > I opened Synaptic and searched package name and description for > 'kernel.' That resulted in only a few packages, and none started with > 'kernel.' I think here the package name starts with 'linux-,' and > searching on that resulted in 5314 packages. including a lot with 5.3 > in the name. I am guess that this means that the packages necessary to > install 5.3 are in the repositories, but which of the hundred+ with 5.3 > in the name I need to install remains a mystery. > > I'm going to ask next on the Ubuntu forums. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
