hwe-support-status does not tell me how to upgrade to 12.04.5

Question

According to 1204_HWE-EOL, there should be an option to upgrade to 12.04.5 HWE, however, I do not receive any such instructions from hwe-support-status.

# uname -r
3.11.0-24-generic
# hwe-support-status --verbose

Your current Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is going out of support
on 08/07/2014.  After this date security updates for critical parts (kernel
and graphics stack) of your system will no longer be available.

For more information, please see:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/1204_HWE_EOL

To upgrade to a supported (or longer supported) configuration:

* Upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to Ubuntu 14.04 LTS by running:
sudo do-release-upgrade -p

OR

* Install a newer HWE version by running:
sudo apt-get install

and reboot your system.

On a different server, I get the same message as above, except it actually states the packages to install:

* Install a newer HWE version by running:
sudo apt-get install linux-generic-lts-trusty linux-image-generic-lts-trusty

I'm not sure if this is how to update all HWEs or if the packages change based on different hardware.

This appears to be the same as Bug #1341320.

Answer 1

Only because no one else was able to answer this question am I posting a "fix" that worked for me.

I used the same commands to update this server as I did with other servers.

# apt-get install linux-generic-lts-trusty linux-image-generic-lts-trusty

After reboot, everything appears to work fine.

# hwe-support-status
Your Hardware Enablement Stack (HWE) is supported until April 2017.

Nothing unusual being reported in the logs.

Answer 2

According to this source: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

It seems to me that this is the way to do it:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-lts-trusty xserver-xorg-lts-trusty libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-trusty

Not sure if all the packages are needed, but I think I will install all of them just in case.

Answer 3

Depending upon the specific flavor of Ubuntu that you are running, it may be correct that you get a blank command for an update. The 12.04.5 point release was not originally planned. Please check the release announcement to verify if you are in fact using a flavor that should be receiving the update. Your reference to a Mythbuntu-related bug in the question notwithstanding the server tag does make it necessary to double-check if you are using a flavor eligible for 12.04.5.