why is /etc/debian_version wrong?
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 11:10 pm
I got a VPN client via work, and I tried to run the installer for the Debian/Ubuntu version on my home Linux Mint machine. It fails. I found where in the script it is failing. It's trying to check the Debian version number using this command (piped to other commands to strip out the actual major version number):
But it returns "stretch/sid", which obviously isn't any kind of Debian version.
I thought Linux Mint was based on Ubuntu which was based on Debian. So... why doesn't this work? I tried a few of the alternatives described here, but they also don't return any Debian-specific information.
https://linuxconfig.org/check-what-debi ... nux-system
I'm using Linux Mint 18.3, which I thought was a stable release? Apparently that text result is supposed to mean that I'm using a test version? What gives? I'm very confused and don't know how to tease this script into working for me.
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cat /etc/debian_version
I thought Linux Mint was based on Ubuntu which was based on Debian. So... why doesn't this work? I tried a few of the alternatives described here, but they also don't return any Debian-specific information.
https://linuxconfig.org/check-what-debi ... nux-system
I'm using Linux Mint 18.3, which I thought was a stable release? Apparently that text result is supposed to mean that I'm using a test version? What gives? I'm very confused and don't know how to tease this script into working for me.