How to Install and Uninstall mainline Package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Last updated: March 15,2025

Deprecated! Installation of this package may no longer be supported.

You can also install and uninstall the mainline on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Ubuntu system

Kubuntu 22.04 LTS
Lubuntu 22.04 LTS
Xubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu MATE 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS
Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Zorin OS 16 / Zorin OS 17
Ubuntu Budgie 22.04

1. Install "mainline" package

This tutorial shows how to install mainline on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "mainline" package

Please follow the guidelines below to uninstall mainline on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
                mainline
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the mainline package on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

Package: mainline
Priority: extra
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 786
Maintainer: Brian K. White
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.15-0~202110201909~ubuntu22.04.1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libgee-0.8-2 (>= 0.8.3), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.16.2), libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 1.5.2), libvte-2.91-0, aptitude, aria2, lsb-release
Filename: pool/main/m/mainline/mainline_1.0.15-0~202110201909~ubuntu22.04.1_amd64.deb
Size: 175090
MD5sum: b449caf8e0e0b21cab399ca99463af98
SHA1: 157899850958f293ecf238101ebb53bffba2dd80
SHA256: 5ce1de0881b0d2bc3380cf70200631696edc182a5f56a80a5d73a29bbb9432cd
Description-en: Kernel Update Utility for Ubuntu-based distributions
Utility for installing mainline Linux kernels on Ubuntu-based distributions.
Downloads and installs kernel packages from kernel.ubuntu.com.
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This is a fork and continuation of the final GPL version of the original author's package "ukuu".
Description-md5: 658098282b869ca35dbba1e08612eec0