How to install new Kernel on OMV from Source

henfri · May 12th 2019

Hello,

I would like to share with you how I updated to linux 5.*.
There are two options:
1) Debian Experimental:
https://unix.stackexchange.com…atest-rc-kernel-on-debian
Currently, this gives 5.0

2) Creating a Debian package yourself:

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apt-get install libncurses-dev build-essential libncurses5-dev gcc libssl-dev grub2 bc




wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.0.11.tar.xz
xz -v -d linux-5.0.11.tar.xz
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-5.0.11.tar.sign


gpg --verify linux-5.0.11.tar.sign


tar xvf linux-5.0.11.tar
cd linux-5.0.11
cp -v /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config


CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=n >> .config
CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS="" >> .config
make menuconfig
make deb-pkg


dpkg -i ../*.deb-pkg

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edit /etc/default/grub --> GRUB_DEFAULT=0

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sudo update-grub

Regards,
Hendrik

henfri · Aug 15th 2019

Update:

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ver="5.2.8"
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-$ver.tar.xz
xz -v -d linux-$ver.tar.xz
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v5.x/linux-$ver.tar.sign
gpg --verify linux-$ver.tar.sign
tar xvf linux-$ver.tar
cd linux-$ver
cp -v /boot/config-$(uname -r) .config
CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYRING=n >> .config
CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS="" >> .config
make menuconfig
make deb-pkg
echo install with dpkg -i ../*$ver*.deb-pkg

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square_eyes · May 23rd 2020

make menuconfig

LEX scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c

/bin/sh: 1: flex: not found

make[1]: *** [scripts/Makefile.lib:184: scripts/kconfig/lexer.lex.c] Error 127

make: *** [Makefile:559: menuconfig] Error 2

henfri · May 23rd 2020

Too little information.

And:

Did you try Google?

square_eyes · May 24th 2020

Hi. Sorry. Context is I broke my GUI and got it to a point where advice on another thread was to upgrade the kernel. An entire day of Googling and thread reading had me here. I followed the instructions in the prev post and got that error on running that line.

I agree it was too little info. Most people Google a lot and get very stressed before posting. I ended up doing a clean install, and now I'm having grief with that but I'll post separately.

henfri · May 24th 2020

The advice to Upgrade the Kernel was most likely nonsense

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