How to install 3.9 kernel on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

[Nils Kassube]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 11/07/13 16:52, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > Basil Chupin wrote:
> >> You will find a copy of the 3.10.10 kernel here:
> >> 
> >> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
> > 
> > I don't think you can (easily) install RPM packages on a Debian
> > derived distribution. Therefore a better location would be
> > <http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/l/linux/> where you can
> > find the Ubuntu packages for kernel 3.10.
> 
> A quick search of the 'net produced quite a number of hits of which
> this is one:
> 
> http://www.howtoforge.com/converting_rpm_to_deb_with_alien

Right, you can make a deb package from a rpm package, so the files would 
be registered in the package database. I do know that and I used it for 
one or two applications in the past. But on the page you mentioned, I 
also found this warning:

| However, you should keep in mind what the alien man page says:
| 
| "alien should not be used to replace important system packages, like
| init, libc, or other things that are essential for the functioning of
| your system. Many of these packages are set up differently by the
| different distributions, and packages from the different distributions
| cannot be used interchangeably. In general, if you can't remove a
| package without breaking your system, don't try to replace it with an
| alien version."

Therefore I doubt that it would work with kernel packages. How about 
e.g. the post-install scripts in the kernel package which update dkms 
modules, initrd and grub? I suppose they won't be included or work 
correctly.


Nils