Since upgrading to 18.04 from 16.04 I have been seeing the following message:
➜ ~ hwe-support-status You have packages from the Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) installed that are going out of support on 2023-04-30. To upgrade to a supported (or longer-supported) configuration: * Upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS by running: sudo do-release-upgrade -p OR * Switch to the current security-supported stack by running: sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-18.04 and reboot your system. ➜ ~ hwe-support-status --show-all-unsupported ➜ ~ hwe-support-status --show-replacements linux-generic-hwe-18.04 ➜ ~ sudo apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-18.04 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package linux-generic-hwe-18.04 E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'linux-generic-hwe-18.04' E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'linux-generic-hwe-18.04' ➜ ~ sudo do-release-upgrade -p Checking for a new Ubuntu release No new release found. ➜ ~ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 Codename: bionic ➜ ~ Does anyone know why this is happening?
42 Answers
No specific hwe or lts linux-image is yet required for 18.04 (so it doesn't exists). Ensure first that linux-image-generic image is installed:
apt install linux-image-generic Then remove old hwe or lts linux images, in my case I did:
apt purge linux-image-generic-lts-xenial Then the hwe-support-status command returns a clean empty response.
I had an old unsupported Linux kernel installed, discovered using
# apt policy linux-generic\*
Remember to run
# apt autoremove
to remove any unused dependencies which may also be picked up by hwe-support-status.
