Re: Cannot apt-get update

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Subject: Re: Cannot apt-get update
From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:56:37 +0200
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On 09/10/2007, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks, Doug. dmesg shows the kernel info, but not what distro (or
version) is installed. I was hoping to find a way of discovering what
distro is installed without rebooted the machine. I'll poke around in
the boot log, it may be there. Thanks.

Dotan Cohen

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