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How do I find out what version of Linux I’m running?
I need to find out some information about the server os I'm working on.
The release version (e.g. 9.04 if Ubuntu or 4 if RHEL) is important to me and the command uname doesn't show it.
$ uname -a
Linux xxxxxxx 2.6.9-78.0.22.EL #1 Fri Feb 31 25:71:00 EDT 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
So: How to get this information via a commandline command?
Most (if not all) modern distributions will include the lsb_release command.
heillinr@mojojojo:~$ lsb_release -r Release: 9.04 heillinr@mojojojo:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 9.04 Release: 9.04 Codename: jaunty
Should give you what you are after :)
What do you have in /etc/*-release? I have /etc/lsb-release which contains:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"
Try
cat /etc/lsb-release
I didn't know about lsb_release.
My method for RPM based systems was:
$ rpm -qa | grep release
redhat-release-5Server-5.3.0.3
redhat-release-notes-5Server-25
in addition to lsb-release (which is available as lsb-release package under debian), you can look at /etc/debian_version(for debian and derivatives) and /etc/issue for most other distributions.
