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I am going to install Xubuntu 12.04 LTS as it has a non-pae kernel that I need to get it to run on my old PC. Is there any way I can update everything other than the kernel once I get it installed?

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In this Q&A (Blocking kernel updates with dpkg) the OP was also on Ubuntu 12.04 and had to hold the kernel at a specific version because things break when upgrading.

A short summary of the link:

First check your kernel image name

dpkg -l | grep linux-image

output for the poster:

ii  linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64              3.2.35-2                           amd64        Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-amd64                      3.2+46                             amd64        Linux for 64-bit PCs (meta-package)

then tell dpkg to hold the metapackage (the generic version without any version numbers)

echo linux-image-amd64 hold | sudo dpkg --set-selections

You can then check this worked via dpkg -l linux-image-amd64

Please read the entire question and answer before proceeding.

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