HOWTO : Oracle Ksplice on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Oracle Ksplice provides kernel updates on Ubuntu and Fedora Linux without reboots free of charge. Ksplice is working properly on Desktop and Server versions as it has graphic and command line interfaces.

This guide shows you how to install Ksplice on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Desktop or Server version)

Step 1 :

sudo apt-get install libgtk2-perl consolekit iproute libck-connector0 libcroco3 libglade2-0 libpam-ck-connector librsvg2-2 librsvg2-common python-cairo python-dbus python-gi python-glade2 python-gobject-2 python-gtk2 python-pycurl python-yaml dbus-x11

Step 2 :

wget https://ksplice.oracle.com/uptrack/dist/xenial/ksplice-uptrack.deb

sudo dpkg -i ksplice-uptrack.deb

Step 3 :

sudo nano /etc/uptrack/uptrack.conf

Change the following as is :

autoinstall = yes

Step 4 :

Usages on CLI :

sudo uptrack-upgrade -y

Reference

User Guide

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