Ubuntu 20.04 – How can I enable HWE?

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I’ve read around that now it should be possible to have kernel 5.8 with HWE 20.04.2.
Looks like this was released last week, but my 20.04 system is still on 5.4.

I’ve seen this answer and can clearly see that the kernel should be available.

What about xorg? Another user is suggesting the following:

sudo apt-get install --install-recommends linux-generic-hwe-20.04 xserver-xorg-hwe-20.04

Unfortunately I get the errors

E: Unable to locate package xserver-xorg-hwe-20.04
E: Couldn't find any package by glob 'xserver-xorg-hwe-20.04'
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'xserver-xorg-hwe-20.04'

Am I doing something wrong? Or the xorg packages are not anymore on HWE upgrade cycles?

Thanks!

appendix

ma@scv:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release:    20.04
Codename:   focal

Answer

There is no xserver-xorg-hwe-20.04. Graphical stack is upgraded as other packages.

To get the 5.8 kernel, you need only

sudo apt install linux-generic-hwe-20.04

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Source : Link , Question Author : Emanuele , Answer Author : Pilot6

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