How to install Kernel 4.7.2 released on Ubuntu 16.04

  Linux kernel is the essential part of any Linux operating system. It is responsible for resource allocation, low-level hardware interfaces, security, simple communications, basic file system management, and more. Written from scratch by Linus Torvalds.

Linux Kernel 4.7.2 Hightlights

• phy: rcar-gen3-usb2: fix mutex_lock calling in interrupt
• Fix it so READ bios are properly errored with -EIO; doing so early in flakey_map() as long as there isn't a match for the corrupt_bio_byte  feature.
• lpfc: fix oops in lpfc_sli4_scmd_to_wqidx_distr() from lpfc_send_taskmgmt()
• ACPI / EC: Work around method reentrancy limit in ACPICA for _Qxx
• ACPI Error: Method reached maximum reentrancy limit (255) (20150818/dsmethod-341)
• Fixes: 02b771b64b73 (ACPI / EC: Fix an issue caused by the serialized _Qxx evaluations)
• x86/platform/intel_mid_pci: Rework IRQ0 workaround
• PCI: Mark Atheros AR9485 and QCA9882 to avoid bus reset
• MIPS: hpet: Increase HPET_MIN_PROG_DELTA and decrease HPET_MIN_CYCLES
• MIPS: Don't register r4k sched clock when CPUFREQ enabled
• MIPS: Fix r4k clockevents registration
• MIPS: mm: Fix definition of R6 cache instruction
• SUNRPC: Don't allocate a full sockaddr_storage for tracing 
•  See announcement for full details

How to install Kernel 4.7.2 on 32 bit Ubuntu and derivative systems:

Download the needed packages:

$ cd /tmp $ wget \ kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_all.deb \ kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_i386.deb \ kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_i386.deb

Install the Kernel:

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.7*.deb linux-image-4.7*.deb $ sudo reboot

How to install Kernel 4.7.2 on 64 bit Ubuntu and derivative systems:
Download the needed packages:

Download the needed packages:

$ cd /tmp $ wget \ kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_all.deb \ kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-headers-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_amd64.deb \ kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.7.2/linux-image-4.7.2-040702-generic_4.7.2-040702.201608201334_amd64.deb

Install the Kernel:

$ sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-4.7*.deb linux-image-4.7*.deb $ sudo reboot

Check Kernel version:

$ uname -r

Optional, remove the kernel:

$ sudo apt-get remove linux-headers-4.7* linux-image-4.7*