no automatic install of linux headers and modules upon upgrade

[dieter-erich]

Hi,
some time ago I screwed my ubuntu-20.04 probably by inadequate use of Ubuntu Cleaner. jermey31 was extremely helpful and with his aid I managed to install the lacking headers and modules.
However, this does not automatically occur upon upgrade. So, I must always run through the following procedure:

ls -l /usr/src/linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt install --reinstall linux-headers-$(uname -r)-generic linux-modules-extra-$(uname -r)-generic

what do I need to do to have it automatically installed as is normally the case on upgrade?

Thanks, D.E.

[deadflowr]

You need the generic headers meta-packages.
But better to just have the linux-generic package installed.
That package will install the linux-image-generic and linux-headers-generic packages.
Which in turn will install the latest versions for both whenever updates comes for them.

sudo apt install linux-generic

If using the hwe stacks it might be either

sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-18.04

For Ubuntu 18.04
or

sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04

for Ubuntu 20.04.

(The linux-modules-extras are a dependency of the linux-image-generic meta-package so ti should e updated as well.)

[dieter-erich]

Thanks a lot! I installed it and shall see when running the next upgrade. Things often seem very easy - provided one knows