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I've got Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop ed. w/ kernel ver. 3.16 About a month ago I allowed the system to upgrade the kernel to ver. 4.xx, but after that I couldn't boot my system, so I re-installed everything from Clonezilla image and now I have again 3.16 It's all nice, but everyday I see this annoying upgrade proposal and what's even worse is that I think that I can't install any Ubuntu updates, since I get this kernel upgrade box and when I close it, then there's no update at all. You can take a look at those two print screens I've added.

that's how the upgrade box looks like

those are the options I have

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That is because the Hardware Enablement Stack you are running has expired. You need to update your HWE. According to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Support the 3.16 kernel has expired for support and will no longer be updated. However, the 3.13 kernel will continue until 14.04 EOL (Apr 2019). Since you are running a kernel that is part of the HWE, the below information is the next step you can do.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Trusty Tahr

The 14.04.2 and newer point releases will ship with an updated kernel and X stack by default. If you have installed with older media you can use the following to install the newer HWE kernel derived from 16.04 (Xenial):

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 sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-core-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-xenial xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-xenial libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-xenial

Found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

Hope this helps!

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  • My question is not how to install Ubuntu 16.04 or upgrade the kernel, but to how to get rid of the proposal for a kernel upgrade and use an Updater as I used it a year ago. I don't want to install 16.04 at the moment
    – Gregory
    Sep 23, 2016 at 18:19
  • @Gregory It is not upgrading to 16.04. It is upgrading the HWE Kernels. It will still be 14.04, but the support for the kernel that you are running that is part of the HWE has expired on support and will not be upgraded.
    – Terrance
    Sep 23, 2016 at 18:21
  • Are you saying that since I have 3.16 kernel, I can't get any updates, unless I upgrade the kernel to ver. 4.xx while keeping 14.04?
    – Gregory
    Sep 23, 2016 at 18:40
  • @Gregory Yes. Because of the HWE it will not update any further. ubuntu.com/info/release-end-of-life I guess you could always try taking it back to a 3.13 kernel which would be the linux-generic-lts-trusty kernel.
    – Terrance
    Sep 23, 2016 at 19:18
  • @Gregory What does it tell you if you run a sudo apt-get update then a sudo apt-get upgrade from the terminal?
    – Terrance
    Sep 23, 2016 at 19:25

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