DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)NAME
debian-distro-info - provides information about Debian's distributions
SYNOPSIS
debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS --date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
--alias=DIST
print the alias (stable, testing, unstable) relative to the distribution codename passed as an argument. Only distribution code-
names composed of lower case ASCII letters are accepted, and if the distribution does not qualify as stable, testing or unstable,
then the same codename passed as argument is returned.
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
latest development version
-o, --old
latest old (stable) version
-s, --stable
latest stable version
--supported
list of all supported stable versions
-t, --testing
latest testing version
--unsupported
list of all unsupported stable versions
-c, --codename
print the codename (default)
-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
distro-info January 2011 DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)
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ubuntu-distro-info - provides information about Ubuntu's distributions
SYNOPSIS
ubuntu-distro-info [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS --date=DATE
date for calculating the version (default: today)
-h, --help
display help message and exit
-a, --all
list all known versions
-d, --devel
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--lts latest long term support (LTS) version
-s, --stable
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--supported
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--unsupported
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-c, --codename
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-r, --release
print the release version
-f, --fullname
print the full name
SEE ALSO debian-distro-info(1), distro-info(1)AUTHOR
The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.
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