Ubuntu update kernel to specific version

In this post I will show you how to compile and install the Linux kernel from source on Ubuntu.

I know that there are tons of tutorials on compiling the Linux kernel.

However, while I tried many of them, none of them worked for me. I always either got error messages during compilation or the compilation terminated without error messages but failed at installation. Therefore, I decided to write down how I did it.

The setup I tested this on

I used a freshly installed VirtualBox with Ubuntu Server 22.04.

Ubuntu change kernel command line

I did not do any modifications to the machine and didn’t install any packages on it beforehand. Additionally, I also tested the steps presented in this post on a real computer with an AMD Ryzen 7 2700X CPU.

Installing dependencies, downloading the kernel source

First we need to install a few packages that are required for the compilation:

Additionally we also need to install the package.

When I tried it without the package, the compilation failed with an error message.

Next we need to need to download the kernel source fro

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