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Find which Debian or ubuntu Linux Version you are running

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There are times debian or ubuntu users and admins want to find which version of debian and ubuntu linux version is running on their machines.This is very useful for those who is helping their customers and they want to know which version they are running and if you took over new system admin job you want to know which version is running on your servers or desktops.

Find or identify which version of Debian Linux you are running

This can be checked in /etc/debian_version file

Find or identify which version of ubuntu Linux you are running

You can find in different ways in ubuntu

Solution 1

cat /etc/issue

The file /etc/issue holds the version of Ubuntu installed on your system

Solution 2

lsb_release -a

cat /etc/lsb-release

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2 Responses to “Find which Debian or ubuntu Linux Version you are running”

Darshak Says:
December 28th, 2006 at 11:46 am
Not sure if it always works, but Firefox’s default home page contains a welcome message with the version number.
Ionut Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Firefox’s About dialog also contains the operating system:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.11

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September 30, 2006

Find which Debian or ubuntu Linux Version you are running

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