Hi Greg > Sent: Monday, December 11, 2023 at 11:40 AM > From: "Greg Wooledge" <g...@wooledge.org> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Need clarifications about how to deal with the installed > problematic kernel, linux-image-6.1.0-14-amd64 (6.1.64-1) > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 04:31:22AM +0100, Stella Ashburne wrote: > > Someone on a social media platform stated that there are only two > > "canonical" [sic] ways to verify the version of Debian installed on a > > system. They are: > > > > uname -a > > > > /proc/version > > > > Do you agree with the above statement? > > The second one isn't even a command.
Sorry. The command should be: cat /proc/version > Neither one of them tells you what version of Debian is installed, even > if you fix the second one. All these tell you is which kernel is > running. You're right. > > To see the version of Debian, the correct command is: > > cat /etc/debian_version > > This works for any *release* version of Debian. It will not differentiate > among various pre-releases, including testing and unstable. For those, > you'll need to go deeper. "apt policy" and "cat /etc/apt/sources.list" > and "tail -n+1 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*" would be good starts for that. > Thanks. Best wishes. Stella