{"id":1680,"date":"2014-11-12T11:46:54","date_gmt":"2014-11-12T11:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1680"},"modified":"2014-11-14T22:51:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T22:51:08","slug":"what-version-of-ubuntu-am-i-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/2014\/11\/what-version-of-ubuntu-am-i-on.php","title":{"rendered":"What version of Ubuntu am I on?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that I ask myself a lot and keep having to look up almost every time. Sometimes I am not certain what distribution I am actually using. Here is the summery version that hopefully will save me having to look the command up each time, and perhaps help you as well.<\/p>\n<p>To find out all the version information about the Linux kernel you are running run the command&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man2\/uname.2.html\">uname<\/a> --all<\/code><\/p>\n<p>To find out the OS release (such as the Ubuntu version) have a look in the os-release file&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code>more <a href=\"http:\/\/man7.org\/linux\/man-pages\/man5\/os-release.5.html\">\/etc\/os-release<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and on most systems you can look at that same information neatly formatted using&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><a href=\"http:\/\/manpages.ubuntu.com\/manpages\/precise\/man1\/lsb_release.1.html\">lsb_release<\/a><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a question that I ask myself a lot and keep having to look up almost every time. Sometimes I am not certain what distribution I am actually using. Here is the summery version that hopefully will save me having to look the command up each time, and perhaps help you as well. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4t60H-r6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1680\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.agm.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}