On Friday 03 December 2004 05:20, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
there should be file called lsb-release in LSB compatible
distributions with the required packages installed. LSB in a
roundabout way is something designed to avoid requiring a particular
distro in the first place
Hm.
summer@Glider:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
cat: /etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory
summer@Glider:~$
So
summer@Glider:~$ sudo apt-get install lsb-release
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lsb-release
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
etc and now:
summer@Glider:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Debian
DISTRIB_RELEASE=3.1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=sarge
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux"
summer@Glider:~$
and that seems a fairly sane set of info. But, you cannot rely on its present.
Howecer,
[root@dugong ~]# cat /etc/lsb-release /etc/redhat-release
LSB_VERSION="1.3"
Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg)
[root@dugong ~]#
[summer@thylacine ~]$ cat /etc/lsb-release
LSB_VERSION="1.3"
[summer@thylacine ~]$ cat /etc/lsb-release /etc/redhat-release
LSB_VERSION="1.3"
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop release 3.90 (Nahant)
[summer@thylacine ~]$
I don't know what the specs say about the file, but I see there's no common
information.
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