Re: Need clarifications about how to deal with the installed problematic kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 (6.1.64-1)

[Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>]

Hi Greg

> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2023 at 11:40 AM
> From: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Need clarifications about how to deal with the installed problematic kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 (6.1.64-1)
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 04:31:22AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote:
> > Someone on a social media platform stated that there are only two "canonical" [sic] ways to verify the version of Debian installed on a system. They are:
> >
> > uname -a
> >
> > /proc/version
> >
> > Do you agree with the above statement?
>
> The second one isn't even a command.

Sorry. The command should be:

cat /proc/version

> Neither one of them tells you what version of Debian is installed, even
> if you fix the second one.  All these tell you is which kernel is
> running.

You're right.

>
> To see the version of Debian, the correct command is:
>
>     cat /etc/debian_version
>
> This works for any *release* version of Debian.  It will not differentiate
> among various pre-releases, including testing and unstable.  For those,
> you'll need to go deeper.  "apt policy" and "cat /etc/apt/sources.list"
> and "tail -n+1 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*" would be good starts for that.
>
Thanks.

Best wishes.

Stella