Re: Cannot apt-get update

["Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen@gmail.com>]

On 09/10/2007, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> Well, I guess there won't be one place to look in all OSs to discover
> which one it is.
>
> In OpenBSD, the first line of the dmesg is
>         OpenBSD (version) (kernel version)
>
> In Debian, to know the version, you really have to look at the
> /etc/apt/sources_list, since /etc/debian_version only gets changed with
> each stable release; you can't tell the diff between testing and Sid.
>
> I don't know what Ubuntu looks like.
>
> The NetBSD and OpenBSD have a man afterboot.  Then again, its easy to
> tell if you are running a Linux or a BSD.
>
> Doug.

Thanks. I'll start familiarizing myself with the different outputs.
I'm no guru, and will never be one, but I like to know as much as I
can. Thank you.

Dotan Cohen

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