[xubuntu-users] canonical-kernel-team and 16.04 xenial?

Petter Adsen petter at synth.no
Fri Mar 18 15:24:22 UTC 2016


On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 07:01:28 -0400
JMZ <florentior at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> For several years I have been using the canonical-kernel-team ppa to 
> update my kernels faster than usual.
> 
> https://launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
> 
> It appears that this ppa isn't ready for xenial, or at least a 
> development version.  The repositories reject the ppa apt-get, and
> the key doesn't work.  A downgrade to wily is not working either. Is
> there a newer/better kernel development ppa which covers xenial?
> Rather, must I wait and see if or when the canonical-kernel-team ppa
> comes around to a xenial ppa (probably when the final release is made
> public)?

PPA's tend to not cover development releases, as they are moving
targets. You will probably need to wait for this, or build your own
kernels from source. You could of course try the kernels for wily in
the PPA, but what you are asking for here is... well, as unsupported as
it gets.

Petter

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