Step : 3 Confirm the Updated Kernel VersionĪfter rebooting the system, as usual, you will able to see the below screen at system startup which is showing that our Linux kernel has been updated to version: 4.10.86_64.

kernel-ml.x86_64 0:4.10.1-1.el7 installed successfully, now reboot the system to check and confirm the Linux Kernel Version. > Package kernel-ml.x86_64 0:4.10. will be installed Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile Desktop]# yum -y -enablerepo=elrepo-kernel install kernel-ml # Install Latest Stable Linux Kernel Version Step: 2 Install Latest Stable Linux Kernel VersionĪs we can see in the output above we successfully installed the latest version of the elrepo-release package, Now let’s go ahead and install the latest Linux kernel version by using the below command. > Package elrepo-release.noarch 0:7. will be installed Marking /var/tmp/yum-root-hT5s6h/.noarch.rpm to be installed

~]# yum -y install '' # Install and Enable ELRepo PackageĮ.noarch.rpm | 8.4 kB 00:00Įxamining /var/tmp/yum-root-hT5s6h/.noarch.rpm: .noarch Note: By-Default RHEL/CentOS 7 don’t allow to update the kernel version. So refer the below command to install the elrepo-release package. Now Install ELRepo third-party community package which will help us to update the kernel to the latest version.

To update the Linux Kernel Version we have to RPM GPG Key, So follow the below command to do the same.

Latest kernel version for rhel 7