Upgrade from 14.04.1 to 14.04.2

[okie2003]

I am sure the information that I need is somewhere in these forums or the Kubuntu web site, but I cannot find it. I am running 14.04.1 LTS and would like to upgrade to 14.04.2. I have tried:
sudo apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade
and
sudo apt-get update and apt-get upgrade
but I still have 3.13.0-46-generic.

Since this is a work computer and I will be keeping it for at least a couple of years I am staying with LTS, but I would like the latest I can get.

[claydoh]

If you keep up with updates, you are already at 14.04.2

You 3.13.0-46 kernel should be at package version 3.13.0-46.79, and was released on March 9.


You will not see many, if any, major kernel version bumps in Ubuntu LTS versions, by default.

[dequire]

If you go to System Settings > System Administration > About System you should see something like this that will tell you what version you are at. You may want to be sure that the Kubuntu backports PPA is enabled as well, as it is often required to pull in the latest packages on older releases.

[Qqmike]

Or at Konsole, this may work:

mike@mike-desktop:~$ [B]lsb_release -a[/B]
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu [COLOR=#ff0000]14.04.2[/COLOR] LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

and this will get you the kernel package version:

mike@mike-desktop:~$ [B]uname -a[/B]
Linux mike-desktop 3.13.0-46-generic [COLOR=#ff0000]#79[/COLOR]-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 10 20:06:50 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[claydoh]

Kubuntu-Backports does not have kernels, however. Perhaps you should explain how/why you get newer kernels in Trusty, Dequire
What are the advantages to adding a 14.10 Utopic kernel and Utopic KDE version to a Trusty 14.04 LTS, instead of simply running Utopic? From the perspective of someone wanting to keep to an LTS system (I have been curious about that)

[okie2003]

Thanks for all your replies. According to the response to "lsb_release -a" I am indeed at 14.04.2. What made me wonder was that I had installed Kubuntu 14.04.2 on another machine and it has 3.16.0-31-generic for a kernel. I just assumed that the upgrade would have that also.

[SteveRiley]

Kubuntu-Backports does not have kernels, however. Perhaps you should explain how/why you get newer kernels in Trusty, Dequire
What are the advantages to adding a 14.10 Utopic kernel and Utopic KDE version to a Trusty 14.04 LTS, instead of simply running Utopic? From the perspective of someone wanting to keep to an LTS system (I have been curious about that)

Kernel 3.16.0-31-generic comes from the Trusty security repository: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/an...6.0-31-generic

[claydoh]

Kernel 3.16.0-31-generic comes from the Trusty security repository: http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/an...6.0-31-generic

Isn't it from the LTS Enablement Stack? ie, not a "stock" (but still supported) kernel?

[SteveRiley]

We'd need to see the package name to be sure. Plus, 14.04.2 already ships with a newer kernel.

[claydoh]

Unless one has installed 14.04.2 fresh, you do not automatically get the lts enablement stack.

The 14.04.2 and newer point release will ship with an updated kernel and X stack by default. If you have installed with older media you can use the following to install the newer kernel from 14.10 (Utopic):

DESKTOP

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-utopic xserver-xorg-lts-utopic libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-utopic libegl1-mesa-drivers-lts-utopic

Explains why my trusty vm didn't get the newer kernel.

[okie2003]

All of this gets me to wqondering, if 3.13 is supported for 5 years and 3.16 for 9 months to I really still have a LTS on my 3.16 computer?

[claydoh]

You have LTS. If you had installed a fresh 14.04.2, you would have the "utopic" kernel already. Not sure why, but previous installs require explicitly installing the relevant packages. My guess is that not everyone will automatically want the newer kernels. if they put it in Trusty, it is supported for the full term of it's lifespan.