Re: Cannot apt-get update
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 08/10/2007, Gerard Robin <g.robin3@free.fr> wrote:
> > >I do not know what
> > >version Debian this is, or how up to date it is, as it is not my
> > >machine. How can I check?
> > cat /etc/debian_version
>
> Thank you Gerard. OT, but is there a general way to check what
> distro/version any *nix installation is? Today I'm playing with a
> friend's Debian system, at home I've Ubuntu and Fedora, and tomorrow I
> might sit at an OpenSuse machine. I like to learn distro-ambiguous
> tools.
>
dmesg
Generally, near the top when the kernel boots there's some indication
of what OS this is.
Doug.
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