Re: Check the linux type?

On Mar 30, 5:22 am, ibupro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Moe Trin) wrote:
On 29 Mar 2007, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux, in article

<1175167247.049377.216...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, SamG wrote:
How do i check what linux type am i using from a script.

No guaranteed standard way. Many distributions include a release or
version file in /etc/ - so you can look for /etc/*release and then
/etc/*version. If the distribution is following the Linux System
Base standard, there should be a command 'lsb_release'

lsb_release -- print distribution specific information

Like ubuntu

Debian derivative - has a useless /etc/debian-version file but the real
information is available from the 'lsb_release' command

or suse

cat /etc/SuSE-release

or fedora.

/etc/fedora-release (also has or had /etc/redhat-release)

Old guy


Thanks for such an overwhelming respnonse just one more question to
add to this... on rpm based systems, like fedora or suse you could
find the packages installed and its version by doing...

rpm -q <packahe name>

on deb based systems like ubuntu how do you do that....????

.

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