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Name

distro-info - provides information about the distributions' releases

Synopsis

distro-info [OPTIONS]

Description

distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution. On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info. All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

Options

--date=DATE date for calculating the version (default: today)

-h, --help display help message and exit

-a, --all list all known versions

-y[MILESTONE], --days[=MILESTONE] display number of days until specified version reaches the specified milestone. MILESTONE may be one of created ", " release ", " eol ", or " eol-server "." If no milestone is specified, assume release. For options that return a list, display the normal output followed by whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone.

-d, --devel latest development version

--series=SERIES series to calculate the version for

-s, --stable latest stable version

--supported list of all supported versions, including development releases

--unsupported list of all unsupported stable versions

-c, --codename print the codename (default)

-r, --release print the release version

-f, --fullname print the full name

See Also

  1. debian-distro-info(1),
  2. ubuntu-distro-info(1)

Author

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>.