How do you enable live patch on Zorin 18.1

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How do you enable live patch on Zorin 18.1 and should you or is it already running?

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Canonical's Live Patch is intended for enterprise use, primarily servers or even headless setups. It is intended for Ubuntu and the Ubuntu supplied kernel.
So, you can install it on Zorin OS (Or Mint or other Distro's that use Ubuntu as a base), but you may run into troubles if your Distro ships a later kernel (As Zorin OS does) or specific packages that are vetted differently in Zorin OS than in Ubuntu.

If you still want to do it - Obtain your token for Ubuntu Pro from Canonical.
Then install livepatch

sudo apt install canonical-livepatch

Apply yout token (Replace TOKEN with your actual token):

sudo canonical-livepatch enable TOKEN

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Hmm the live patch wont enable unless you have the correct kernel that is currently in use. I know this as on ubuntu 26.04 i changed to the liquorix kernel and the live patch stopped after some searching its due to me not being on the correct kernel

ok looks like 24.04 is currently using 6.17 backported so its possible to get it to enable

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Thanks fro the input.

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Note: I have corrected two typos "8.1" to "18.1" in title and post #1. This to avoid future confusion. Zab.