Find which Debian or ubuntu Linux Version you are running
Posted by Admin on September 30th, 2006
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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
or
cat /etc/lsb-release
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.
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
August 29th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
I’ve found much better the firefox way rather than the console one.
While the /etc/debian_version file just says : “testing/unstable”
the other one gives me a lot of info about my OS.
February 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
If you just need the version number (for scripting, etc), you can do something like this: