Find out the version of debian
January 3rd, 2009 Posted in linux
Hi , one day I forgot wich version of debian I was running , so I decided to put that information on my blog to remember the command, and help others who had that question to , and try to save everybody some time trying to look the information, so here it is the command
more /etc/debian_version
as you can see the file /etc/debian_version holds the information about the version of the debian you are running.
here are all the version of Debian at the moment:
- Debian GNU/Linux 7.0 (“wheezy”) — future
- Debian GNU/Linux 6.0 (
squeeze
)— frozen version - Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (
lenny
) — current stable release - Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (
etch
) — current stable release - Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (
sarge
) — obsolete stable release - Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (
woody
) — obsolete stable release - Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (
potato
) — obsolete stable release - Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 (
slink
) — obsolete stable release - Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (
hamm
) — obsolete stable release
So you can have an idea of the file you saw .
I hope this article will be of some help for everybody.
July 15th, 2011 at 8:22 pm
“cat /etc/debian_version” would be a better way of doing it, because it is a one line file.
Also, your link to Wheezy is incorrect — it is linking to squeeze.