{"id":619,"date":"2018-10-18T20:34:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.successionua.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2018-10-18T20:34:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T17:34:37","slug":"oracle-linux-6-how-to-install-specific-unbreakable-kernel-uek-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Linux 6: How to install specific Unbreakable Kernel (UEK) version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to install specific unbreakable kernel (UEK) version for Oracle Linux 6.x you need to complete the following steps:<br \/>\nIn this example we will use Oracle Linux 6.8 and our goal is to install\u00a04.1.12-61.1.14 kernel version.<br \/>\nYou need to edit\u00a0\/etc\/yum.repos.d\/public-yum-ol6.repo repository file and search there for UEKx record, where x is the linux release family (4 is the latest for now) and add &#8216;<strong>archive<\/strong>&#8216; to the path of repository, because by default repository contains only the most recent uek packages:<\/p>\n<pre><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">[public_ol6_UEKR4]<\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">name=Latest Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 for Oracle Linux $releasever ($basearch)<\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">baseurl=http:\/\/yum.oracle.com\/repo\/OracleLinux\/OL6\/UEKR4\/<strong>archive<\/strong>\/$basearch\/<\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">gpgkey=file:\/\/\/etc\/pki\/rpm-gpg\/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle<\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">gpgcheck=1<\/span>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">enabled=$uekr4<\/span><\/pre>\n<p>Next you need to install correct packages (assuming that we need to build kernel modules in the future):<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">yum clean all<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">yum install kernel-uek-4.1.12-61.1.14.el6uek.x86_64 kernel-uek-devel-4.1.12-61.1.14.el6uek.x86_64 kernel-uek-headers.x86_64<\/span><br \/>\nNext, boot into the new kernel version.<br \/>\nLinks:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>https:\/\/yum.oracle.com\/oracle-linux-6.html &#8211; You can browse and take repository\u00a0 address from\u00a0the tab address bar for repository file.<\/li>\n<li>https:\/\/yum.oracle.com\/oracle-linux-7.html<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need to install specific unbreakable kernel (UEK) version for Oracle Linux 6.x you need to complete the following steps: In this example we will use Oracle Linux 6.8 and our goal is to install\u00a04.1.12-61.1.14 kernel version. You need to edit\u00a0\/etc\/yum.repos.d\/public-yum-ol6.repo repository file and search there for UEKx record, where x is the linux &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geckich.space\/?p=619\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oracle Linux 6: How to install specific Unbreakable Kernel (UEK) version<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[43,55,90,100],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-kernel","tag-oracle-linux","tag-yum","tag-100"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geckich.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}