Install / Upgrade to Linux Kernel 4.13 On Ubuntu / LinuxMint

Linux Torvalds announced the 4.13 kernel series after two months and it is one of the bigger releases and he wants everyone to use the Linux kernel 4.13 on their operating systems.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to Install the Latest version of Kernel 4.13 On Ubuntu 17.04 / 16.04 LTS and LinuxMint.

The Latest stable version of Kernel is 4.13 and it released on 3rd September 2017

For details refer this link

Installation steps

The below commands will work on Debian-based systems.

Step 1: Download the deb files directly using wget , copy the below commands and paste it in terminal one by one according to your CPU architecture

For 32 bit systems

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13/linux-headers-4.13.0-041300_4.13.0-041300.201709031731_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13/linux-headers-4.13.0-041300-generic_4.13.0-041300.201709031731_i386.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13/linux-image-4.13.0-041300-generic_4.13.0-041300.201709031731_i386.deb

For 64 bit systems

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13/linux-headers-4.13.0-041300_4.13.0-041300.201709031731_all.deb

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13/linux-headers-4.13.0-041300-generic_4.13.0-041300.201709031731_amd64.deb 

wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.13/linux-image-4.13.0-041300-generic_4.13.0-041300.201709031731_amd64.deb

Step 2: After successful downloading install it

sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.13* linux-image-4.13*

Step 3: Verify installed Version

After reboot, your new kernel will be installed and default, for checking use uname command

uname -r

Removing Kernel 4.13

For removing the Kernel 4.13 run the below command in terminal.

sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.13-* linux-image-4.13-*