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pgoetz

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SOLVED: linux-lts no longer conflicts with linux?

In the past I've been able to convert systems to using linux-lts simply by installing that package:

# pacman -S linux-lts

However I just now tried this on an up-to-date Arch VM, and not only did the linux-lts and linux packages not conflict, but after rebooting the running kernel was still 5.6.15!

Does anyone know what's up? linux-lts is still included in core; did the procedure for converting to the kernel change?  I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so am not sure what's going on.

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Re: SOLVED: linux-lts no longer conflicts with linux?

...don't think they ever conflicted.  You can have multiple kernels installed.  You need to update your boot loader to see a kernel package installed.  See the wiki.

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Slithery

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Re: SOLVED: linux-lts no longer conflicts with linux?

In the past I've been able to convert systems to using linux-lts simply by installing that package:

# pacman -S linux-lts

No, you haven't. That has always just installed the LTS kernel alongside the standard one.

However I just now tried this on an up-to-date Arch VM, and not only did the linux-lts and linux packages not conflict, but after rebooting the running kernel was still 5.6.15!

Yes. That's as expected.

Does anyone know what's up? linux-lts is still included in core; did the procedure for converting to the kernel change?  I couldn't find this documented anywhere, so am not sure what's going on.

The procedure has never changed. You have always needed to update your boot loader configuration to load the LTS kernel.

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pgoetz

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Re: SOLVED: linux-lts no longer conflicts with linux?

...don't think they ever conflicted.  You can have multiple kernels installed.

Thanks, graysky -- I must have just misremembered, as I haven't converted a system to use the LTS kernel in a while. If you don't want to suffer package updates for the normal kernel, this works fine:

# pacman -S linux-lts
# pacman -Rns linux

Marking this as solved.

pgoetz

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Re: SOLVED: linux-lts no longer conflicts with linux?

The procedure has never changed. You have always needed to update your boot loader configuration to load the LTS kernel.

Thank you; I haven't done this in a while and obviously misremembered.  My bad.