[RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

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[RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by percherie »

Hi,


I use Mint and I want a solution for the name Ubuntu version that matches my version Mint

Nadia For example, I want to get Quantal. It is for use in the command line. Currently the following commands can not function because of the use of $lsb_release -sc

For exemple :

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echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian `lsb_release -sc` contrib"
OR

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wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list
OR

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echo "deb http://josm.openstreetmap.de/apt `lsb_release -sc` universe #JOSM" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list && wget -q http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-apt.key -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update
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Re: Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by karlchen »

Hello, percherie.

On an absolutely up-to-date Mint13 here, there is a file named /etc/os-release. It has been introduced by some Ubuntu update which turned the underlying Ubuntu into 12.04.2. The content of the file /etc/os-release reads

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NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="12.04.2 LTS, Precise Pangolin"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu precise (12.04.2 LTS)"
VERSION_ID="12.04"

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lsb_release -sc
returns the string maya.
So in order to get the string precise which is the codename of the Ubuntu version which Maya has been built upon, I can use the following command:

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grep "PRETTY_NAME" /etc/os-release | awk '{ print $2 }'
It returns the string precise here.
Provided the same file /etc/os-release exists on Nadia as well, the command should return quantal in your case.
I cannot check right now because I am on Mint 13. But I will definitely check next time I boot up Nadia.

HTH,
Karl
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Re: Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by percherie »

Thank you

My english it's light but i am all understand ;-)
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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by karlchen »

Hello, percherie.

As promised, here is the result of the test done on my Mint 14 system:

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$  lsb_release -sc
nadia
$ grep "PRETTY_NAME" /etc/os-release | awk '{ print $2 }'
quantal
$ 
So the command works provided the file /etc/os-release is up-to-date.

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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by percherie »

Thank you karl for your test (and new install of mint)
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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by mirage59 »

Hello all,

On Olivia, the previous solution doesn't work for me
(Ubuntu version : 13.04, Raring Ringtail)
so to install JOSM with the openstreetmap.de repository and
stay with a recent version of this amazing tool you can use these commands :

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#Add the key
wget -q http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-apt.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
#Add the repository
echo "deb http://josm.openstreetmap.de/apt `grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release | tr ',' '\n' | tr '"' ' ' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tail -1 | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
NB : This command isn't elegant but I'm not an awk guru and this have worked fine for me.

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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by mirage59 »

Hi all,

I have read a little about awk so this is my prettier solution :

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#Add the key
wget -q http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-apt.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
#Add the repository
echo "deb http://josm.openstreetmap.de/apt `grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
Feel free to improve it :wink:

Mirage59
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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by percherie »

mirage59 wrote:Hi all,

I have read a little about awk so this is my prettier solution :

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#Add the key
wget -q http://josm.openstreetmap.de/josm-apt.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -
#Add the repository
echo "deb http://josm.openstreetmap.de/apt `grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release | awk '{ print $2 }' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]` universe" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
Feel free to improve it :wink:

Mirage59
Thank you is better, i like it ;-)
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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by Skeptikos »

In 14.04 / Linux Mint 17, this no longer works for me.

This is my os-release file:

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NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
Can't get "trusty" out of the PRETTY_NAME= line like Karl did earlier, and mirage's code returns "LTS,".

This is what I used instead, to get the next-to-last word after "VERSION=":

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grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release | awk '{print $(NF-1)}' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:]
Hopefully this will work for a few more releases, at least, since it won't be confused by the presence or absence of "LTS" in the long-term support releases.
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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by risimmons »

I just came across this today. The simple answer is to use lsb_release -ur / -uc to give upstream information. This works on 17.2 - don't know about other releases;

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12:08:15 ~ $ lsb_release -ur
Release:	14.04

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12:12:12 ~ $ lsb_release -uc
Codename:	trusty
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Re: [RESOLVE] Find the name of Ubuntu version with Mint

Post by SiKing »

Was just looking for this solution today. On LM-Sarah 'lsb_release -ur' returns "lsb_release: error: no such option: -u".

However, others mentioned the file `/etc/os-release`, but I think you are all using it wrong. The more elegant solution, IMHO, is:

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$ source /etc/os-release
$ echo $UBUNTU_CODENAME
xenial
No need for `grep` or `awk`, just source the file from your script and the call the appropriate variable.
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