On Friday 03 December 2004 05:20, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > there should be file called lsb-release in LSB compatible > distributions with the required packages installed. LSB in a > roundabout way is something designed to avoid requiring a particular > distro in the first place Hm. summer@Glider:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release cat: /etc/lsb-release: No such file or directory summer@Glider:~$ So summer@Glider:~$ sudo apt-get install lsb-release Password: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: lsb-release 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded. etc and now: summer@Glider:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release DISTRIB_ID=Debian DISTRIB_RELEASE=3.1 DISTRIB_CODENAME=sarge DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Debian GNU/Linux" summer@Glider:~$ and that seems a fairly sane set of info. But, you cannot rely on its present. Howecer, [root@dugong ~]# cat /etc/lsb-release /etc/redhat-release LSB_VERSION="1.3" Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) [root@dugong ~]# [summer@thylacine ~]$ cat /etc/lsb-release LSB_VERSION="1.3" [summer@thylacine ~]$ cat /etc/lsb-release /etc/redhat-release LSB_VERSION="1.3" Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop release 3.90 (Nahant) [summer@thylacine ~]$ I don't know what the specs say about the file, but I see there's no common information. -- Cheers John Summerfield tourist pics: http://environmental.disaster.cds.merseine.nu/
