How to update Kernel version...?

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Hi,
I have installed Linux Mint on my system having Kernel version 3.5.0-17-generic.
I want to update my kernel version to 3.7.7
please tell me how i can update to new kernel version i have downloaded kernel version 3.7.7 from http://www.kernel.org/[^].
please help me....!!!

Posted 13-Feb-13 5:39am

Swapnil Bhalerao

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Richard MacCutchan 13-Feb-13 12:01pm

You will probably need to rebuild Linux with the new kernel.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 13-Feb-13 13:40pm

Probably you need to update the kernel itself, not the version... :-)
Some distro provide a straightforward way to update, the same way as applications, not sure about Mint. Anyway, what's the problem? There is a lot of literature on this step...
—SA

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H.Brydon · Accepted Answer · 2013-02-14T19:31:00

Solution 1

On linux, you can typically update to the latest of any software on your system with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

This mechanism gives you "the latest" but does not give you the opportunity to select which specific choice you get from a list of those available.

Google should be able to help you with details of removing obsolete kernel versions.

Posted 14-Feb-13 19:31pm

H.Brydon

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Swapnil Bhalerao 16-Feb-13 9:31am

Thanks....
I have one more Q ?
how to build kernel source tree??.