Any command to know the version of debian?

[cola]

Hi,
Is there any command to know the version of debian installed like debian 5.0.1 or something like that?

[debil]

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$ lsb_release -a

[cola]

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$ lsb_release -a

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bash: lsb_release: command not found


[debil]

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$ cat /etc/debian_version

[cola]

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$ cat /etc/debian_version

Thanks debil.

[craigevil]

$ cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux squeeze/sid \n \l


$ cat /etc/debian_version
squeeze/sid

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux unstable (sid)
Release: unstable
Codename: sid

lsb_release is a python module ,
$ locate lsb_release
/usr/bin/lsb_release
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/lsb_release.py
/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/lsb_release.pyc
/usr/share/man/man1/lsb_release.1.gz
/usr/share/python-support/lsb-release/lsb_release.py

[drakeman]

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$ lsb_release -a

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bash: lsb_release: command not found


The command lsb_release -a works fine, but if you are not root you should

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sudo lsb_release -a

Regards!

[jalu]

not here:

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lets_rock$ apt-cache search lsb_release
lets_rock$ su
Password:
ROOT # lsb_release -a
bash: lsb_release: command not found
ROOT # cd /usr/lib/pymodules/python2.5/;ls
cairo         ecm           pygtk.py
dbus         ecsm-0.6.0.egg-info  pygtk.pyc
dbus_bindings.py   gtk-2.0           python_xlib-0.12.egg-info
dbus_bindings.pyc   istanbul        reportbug
_dbus_bindings.so   libtorrent.so        reportbug-4.2.egg-info
_dbus_glib_bindings.so   libxml2mod.so        selinux
deluge         libxml2.py        xdg
deluge-1.1.6.egg-info   libxml2.pyc        Xlib
drv_libxml2.py      ORBit.so
drv_libxml2.pyc      pygtk.pth
ROOT # exit

greetings

[debil]

The command lsb_release -a works fine, but if you are not root you should

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sudo lsb_release -a

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$ which lsb_release
/usr/bin/lsb_release

It should work alright run as a normal user as well.

[jalu]

but of what package is it a part? as said, not everybody has got it
(on buntu it is default, but on debian it doesn`t seem to be )

[Qew]

We find out what package /usr/bin/lsb_release belongs to (package name is the left entry).

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~$ apt-file search lsb_release
lsb-release: /usr/bin/lsb_release
lsb-release: /usr/share/man/man1/lsb_release.1.gz

We find out that it's not installed on the machine (the first "p" suggests it isn't installed, an "i" would suggest it's installed, a "c" would suggest it used to be installed, but its configuration files were kept after it was previously removed).

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~$ aptitude search lsb-release
p   lsb-release                     - Linux Standard Base version reporting...

We now install it (as root, naturally).

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aptitude install lsb-release

All done.

[jalu]

each to his own goes the saying, but instead of installing apt-file to find out what i need to install to run lsb_release and then installing lsb-release to find out what version i run, i`d prefer using cat /etc/debian_version.
that said i`ll have a look at apt-file
{post-edit, due to Qew`s following post: btw, quite a good hint for me}

[Telemachus]

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$ lsb_release -a

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bash: lsb_release: command not found


The command lsb_release -a works fine, but if you are not root you should

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sudo lsb_release -a

Most of the folks here prefer su to sudo. More importantly, sudo is (1) often not installed on a Debian system (if you do a minimal installation) and (2) if it is installed (via the Desktop task during installation, perhaps), it is still not set up as it is on Ubuntu.

Bottom line: you are probably better off recommending su rather than sudo on this board, since su should be installed and working on any standard Debian system, but sudo is not.

[Qew]

each to his own goes the saying, but instead of installing apt-file to find out what i need to install to run lsb_release and then installing lsb-release to find out what version i run, i`d prefer using cat /etc/debian_version.
that said i`ll have a look at apt-file.

My own preference would have been cat /etc/debian_version, too, it's just that you asked what package was lsb_release part of, so I answered your request. Yes, each to their own... even if their own is the same as yours.