Re: command to answer "what's your OS"
mharlow@minerva% apt-cache search lsb
alien - install non-native packages with dpkg
lsb - Linux Standard Base 1.3 core support package
lsb-release - LSB release command
lsb-rpm - Red Hat package manager for LSB package building
lsbdev-guide - LSB Application Developers' Guide
mharlow@minerva% 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 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 9222B of archives.
After unpacking 90.1kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main lsb-release 1.4-7.1 [9222B]
Fetched 9222B in 2s (3664B/s)
Selecting previously deselected package lsb-release.
(Reading database ... 130318 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking lsb-release (from .../lsb-release_1.4-7.1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up lsb-release (1.4-7.1) ...
mharlow@minerva% lsb_release -d
Description: Debian GNU/Linux
i found it, it is not installed by default
On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 21:54:08 +0800, John Summerfield
<debian@computerdatasafe.com.au> wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
>
> >>$ grep free /etc/motd #kind of sloppy
> >>The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
> >>
> >>Therefore there is no single standard command that says Debian GNU/Linux.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >lsb_release -d
> >
> >
>
> Kookaburra:/boot# lsb_release -d
> -bash: lsb_release: command not found
> Kookaburra:/boot#
>
> --
>
> Cheers
> John
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