Check Which Version of Ubuntu You're Running

By Michele Neylon on July 17, 2008 1:21 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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If you want to check which version of Ubuntu is installed on a machine run the following command:

lsb_release -a

On Debian the command is:

cat /etc/debian_version

The redhat equivalent, which would work on redhat derivatives as well, is:

cat /etc/redhat-release

1 Comments

Niall said:

em, lsb_release -a will work on Debian Etch, Centos 4+ and RHEL 4+ :) Make life easier for yourself and just learn the one!!