Todays Update installs kernel 7.0 incl. Linux-Meta

Hello,
with todays update linux-meta got updated and leeds to installation of kernel 7.0, though i did never install it:

[2026-05-05T16:08:12+0200] [ALPM] upgraded linux-meta (6.18-1 → 7.0-1)
[2026-05-05T16:08:12+0200] [ALPM] installed linux70 (7.0.3-1)

Kernel 7.0 causes different problems on my system. So i tried to remove it in GUI and with the terminal. After changing to 6.18.
I couldn´t remove it, cause of dependencies to linux-meta:

sudo mhwd-kernel -r linux70
[sudo] Passwort für acer:
Abhängigkeiten werden geprüft …
Fehler: Vorgang konnte nicht vorbereitet werden (Kann Abhängigkeiten nicht erfüllen)
:: Entfernen von linux70 verletzt Abhängigkeit »linux70«, benötigt von linux-meta

I always run my system with 6.18.
Actually i changed kernel manually in grub.
How can i remove it?

What is your problem on 7?

You could remove linux-meta as well.

Problems with wifi. No wifi connection possible.

You must have installed linux-meta at some point. Maybe you forgot.

Either way, it probably pulled in linux70 because you still had linux619 installed, which was dropped from the repo. In that case, linux-meta will indeed pull in the next still supported non-LTS kernel, which is 7.0.

Remove linux-meta first, and then remove linux70 afterwards. Do however note that you cannot remove a running kernel, so you must be booted into 6.18 when you do it.

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Thanks, i’m already back on 6.18 LTS, but i do not remember that i installed linux-meta any time.
Could it depend on community “Cinnamon-Edition” i am using?
Does removing linux-meta eventually cause any other problems?

I could remove linux-meta and after that Kernel 7.0. Everthing ok again.
Thanks to you all!!

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That is possible. In theory, the underlying system of a Community Edition and its package list should be the same as those of the Official Editions, but it’s always possible that the developer in question added linux-meta at some point.

No, none at all. :wink:

At some point, the devs would list EOL kernels in the “replaces” field of the linux-meta PKGBUILD. That could explain how linux-meta got installed.

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My system is up-to-date, even on the unstable branch, and I don’t have the linux-meta package.

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