How do i find out which Fedora version I'm running from the cli (not uname -a)?
Solution 1:
This perhaps?
[dummyuser@d400 ~]$ ls -l /etc/system-release
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 14 2009-06-04 19:05 /etc/system-release -> fedora-release
[dummuser@d400 ~]$ cat /etc/system-release
Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)
Solution 2:
Please see:
- How do I find out what version of Linux is running?
- How do I find out the distro of a server?
- Determining type of Linux machine
Solution 3:
On modern systems you should be able to look in /etc/lsb-release
mojo-jojo david% cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=karmic
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu karmic (development branch)"
This should be the LSB mandated way of finding out the distribution across different Linux distributions.
You should not rely on /etc/issue, as it is used for the login message, and someone might change it.
Solution 4:
Even better, and *nixwide:
lsb_release -d
Solution 5:
I had to do
cat /etc/fedora-release