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Re: Cannot apt-get update



Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 09/10/2007, Kumar Appaiah <akumar@iitm.ac.in> wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:06:39PM +0200, Dotan Cohen 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.
>> This might be useful:
>> http://chennailug.org/wiki/?title=Find_your_distro
>>
> 
> Nice script. Note that there's quite a bit of spam on that page. If
> you're a member of that wiki, then I suggest that you erase it. I
> don't want to register, and I could not find the address of anyone
> responsible at the chennailug website. Thanks.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> 
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

A good advice for actual distributions is given in the comment in the
beginning of that script:

lsb_release -a

-- 
Regards,
Jörg-Volker.



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