How to upgrade a kernel

pcpavnz · posted: 2013-11-12 19:22

When a new kernel is uploaded to the antiX repo, it will not be recognised as an upgrade from your existing kernel.

13.2 is running the 3.7.10 series, so if you want an upgraded kernel with all the latest fixes etc, you can either do it by the command line, or by using Synaptic.

Synaptic is easy for those that like the GUI option.

Open Synaptic and hit the reload button, then type 3.7.10-antix into the Quick filter box and within a moment, all packages with the contents of the string of characters you typed into the box will show up within a moment. To refine your search further or to get a cleaner view, simply add the next trailing characters to the quick filter, in this case I added .7

To updrade to 3.7.10-antix.7 select for installation the linux-image and the linux-headers that matches the numbering you want for installation, limiting your choices to your preferred type, e.g. gnu if you want to have no proprietary stuff, or the regular kernel and go ahead and install. See the attachment

Eino · posted: 2013-11-12 21:58

Desktop is not loading on the new kernel, should i remove it and start over,?
or is their is something missing?
the install looked OK to me.

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$ su
Password: 
root@antiX1:/home/Eino# apt-get update && apt-get install linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release.gpg
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy Release                                    
Hit http://antix.daveserver.info stable Release.gpg                            
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release.gpg                      
Hit http://antix.daveserver.info stable Release                      
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates Release
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main amd64 Packages              
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages           
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages          
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages    
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/contrib Translation-en           
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib amd64 Packages 
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/main Translation-en              
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages
Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org wheezy/non-free Translation-en          
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/contrib Translation-en 
Hit http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main amd64 Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/main Translation-en
Hit http://security.debian.org wheezy/updates/non-free Translation-en
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-en_US
Ign http://antix.daveserver.info stable/main Translation-en
Reading package lists... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libfox-1.6-0 libgraphicsmagick3 libqt4-gui libwmf0.2-7 libwxbase2.8-0 libwxgtk2.8-0 libwxsqlite3-2.8-0
  libxine1 libxine1-bin libxine1-ffmpeg libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-plugins
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
  linux-firmware-image
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/41.1 MB of archives.
After this operation, 154 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp.
(Reading database ... 108847 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp (from .../linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp_3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp-6_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously unselected package linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp.
Unpacking linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp (from .../linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp_3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp-6_amd64.deb) ...
Setting up linux-headers-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp (3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp-6) ...
Setting up linux-image-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp (3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp-6) ...
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp
cryptsetup: WARNING: failed to detect canonical device of /dev/sda2
P: Checking for EXTLINUX directory... found.
P: Writing config for /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp...
P: Writing config for /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-antix.5-amd64-smp...
P: Updating /boot/extlinux/linux.cfg...
  No volume groups found
root@antiX1:/home/Eino# update-grub
Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub
Searching for default file ... found: /boot/grub/default
Testing for an existing GRUB menu.lst file ... found: /boot/grub/menu.lst
Searching for splash image ... none found, skipping ...
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-antix.7-amd64-smp
Found kernel: /boot/vmlinuz-3.7.10-antix.5-amd64-smp
Found kernel: /boot/memtest86+.bin
Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done

anticapitalista · posted: 2013-11-12 22:11

If you have proprietary drivers installed, you will need to re-install them

Eino · posted: 2013-11-12 22:24

Thank's I just installed my NVIDIA graphics drivers to the kernel all is good now.

Silent Observer · posted: 2013-12-22 18:47

Nice. Installed the new kernel via Synaptic, and once I fixed the typo (dot instead of dash in the new kernel file name) inserted when manually editing [/]boot/grub/menu.lst, my Athlon XP system (antiX 13.2 Testing) started right up with the new kernel; since I'm running default VESA display and other drivers as auto-detected, I didn't have to do anything else. My first manual kernel upgrade, successful!!