Version

[Raseel Bhagat]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 10:48 PM, John Heinen <hensandpat at earthlink.net>wrote:

> How can I find out which version I have on the computer, ubuntu version
> 8.04 or 9.04, 32 or 64 bit?
>


Apart from some of the ways people have already suggested, here is what I
use :

$sudo  lsb_release -a
<enter user password>
This will give the OS codename, Distro name, Version, etc.

$uname -m
In this case, a 32-bit system will display i686 or i586, while a 64-bit
system will usually display x86_64

Another trick is to do "file" on a binary :
$file /usr/bin/<any binary name>
The output will display whether this is a  32-bit ELF binary or a 64-bit

Thanks,
Raseel
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