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Find out which version of Ubuntu I am on

How I went about finding out which version of Ubuntu I was running

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  • Aug 2010
  • Updated: Feb 2025
  • 81 words
  • Web Dev

This article is rather old so the solutions may no longer work.

Recently (this morning) I had to find out which version of Ubuntu was running on a clients machine.  A quick google provided three articles of note all with different solutions.

  1. Type cat /etc/issue into the command line (no back ticks).
  2. Type lsb_release -a into the command line (no back ticks).
  3. If you have a GUI, open up FireFox and view the about dialog.

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