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we have given our servers to security check and then they have suggested the below.

  • Installed package : linux-headers-5.4.0-29_5.4.0-29.33 Fixed package : linux-headers-5.4.0-_5.4.0-105.119
  • Installed package : linux-headers-5.4.0-29-generic_5.4.0-29.33 Fixed package : linux-headers-5.4.0--generic_5.4.0-105.119
  • Installed package : linux-image-5.4.0-29-generic_5.4.0-29.33 Fixed package : linux-image-5.4.0--generic_5.4.0-105.119
  • Installed package : linux-modules-5.4.0-29-generic_5.4.0-29.33 Fixed package : linux-modules-5.4.0--ge

How to update this particular packages properly without effecting the server as many are of the production servers.

I tried sudo apt-get update -y(Did not workout)

Also tried

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-5.4.0-_5.4.0-105.119
[sudo] password for user: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package linux-headers-5.4.0-_5.4.0-105.119
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-headers-5.4.0-_5.4.0-105.119'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-headers-5.4.0-_5.4.0-105.119'

Not able to understand how to update the packages.

Rob
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Ravi Teja RVN
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There are two ways to update them:

  1. Run sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y --upgrade linux-headers-5.4.0-105 linux-headers-5.4.0-105-generic linux-image-5.4.0-105-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-105-generic (remember to add the focal-updates repo).
  2. Compile them from source code. Download the latest source (5.4.0 LTS branch) from https://cdn.kernel.org. Extract the file, run make menuconfig, configure it, run make deb-pkg, wait some time, and then in the parent directory you'll find the .deb files. You will probably need to install many dependencies, so it's a slow process.

Hope it helps!

Lumito
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  • Hi, Thanks for your response Lumito. What does it mean by "remember to add the focal-updates repo" , can you give an example? – Ravi Teja RVN Jul 26 '22 at 05:20