[lug] What distro am I running?

[Jeffrey Haemer]

Ken,

This does it!  Thanks.

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Kenneth D Weinert <kenw at quarter-flash.com>
wrote:

> Try using specific lsb_release options. The default (I'm on
> ubuntu/gutsy) does as you say, but if I instead use:
>
> lsb_release -a
>
> The result is:
>
> No LSB modules are available.
> Distributor ID: Ubuntu
> Description:    Ubuntu 7.10
> Release:        7.10
> Codename:       gutsy
>
> You can use individual arguments to get the bits you want and the use of
> -s suppresses the headers.
>
> I don't know if it works the same way on the other distros, but it might
> be your platform agnostic way of getting the info.
>
>
> On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 10:51 -0600, Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
> > My Ubuntu boxes have a file called /etc/lsb-release that looks like
> > this:
> >
> >         DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> >         DISTRIB_RELEASE=7.10
> >         DISTRIB_CODENAME=gutsy
> >         DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 7.10"
> >
> > Nice.
> >
> > My Fedora 8 boxes have no such file, but have a
> > directory, /etc/lsb-release.d, with a bunch of 0-length files.
> > The SuSE 10.1 boxes have both.  Their /etc/lsb-release.d is full of
> > empty files, and their /etc/lsb-release looks like this:
> >
> >         LSB_VERSION="
> core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32"
> >
> > All three have a command called lsb_release(1).  Here's what the
> > command spits out:
> >
> > F8
> >     LSB
> > Version:    :
> core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
> > SuSE
> >     LSB Version:
> >
> core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-ia32:graphics-3.0-noarch
> > Ubuntu
> >     No LSB modules are available.
> >
> > Fedora 8 sticks release info into /etc/redhat-release.  Other RH
> > distros have this, too, even if I have to do a minor amount of parsing
> > on the contents.
> >
> > Fedora Core release 6 (Zod)
> > Fedora release 8 (Werewolf)
> > Red Hat Enterprise Server release 5.1 (Tikanga)
> >
> > SuSE sticks version stuff into a multi-line /etc/SuSE-release,
> > analogous to Ubuntu's /etc/lsb-release, but with a different syntax.
> >         SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586)
> >         VERSION = 10.1
> > So, is there an /etc/ubuntu-release?  Of course not.  But there is
> > an /etc/debian_version, which says
> >         lenny/sid
> >
> > I can hand-craft and maintain a special-purpose script to puzzle it
> > out, but I thought I'd ask whether there's a simple, standard command,
> > analogous to uname, to tell me what the heck distro I'm running.  I'd
> > like to be able to invoke it within scripts that do other,
> > distro-specific stuff.
> >
> > --
> > Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
> > 720-837-8908 [cell]
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Jeffrey Haemer <jeffrey.haemer at gmail.com>
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