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In a tutorial, I'm prompted "If you are running Squeeze, follow these instructions..." and "If you are running Wheezy, follow these other instructions..." When I run uname, I get the following ...
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I would like to know which are the standard commands available in every Linux system. For example if you get a debian/ubuntu/redhat/suse/arch/slackware etc, you will always find there commands like: ...
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When I cat /etc/os-release I get the following: PRETTY_NAME="Kali GNU/Linux Rolling" NAME="Kali GNU/Linux" ID=kali VERSION="2018.1" VERSION_ID="2018.1" ID_LIKE=debian ANSI_COLOR="1;31" HOME_URL="http:...
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Is there a way (from a script) to identify the default system package manager? To clarify, what I want to do is run a given command and, on Debian or any of its derivatives it'll return something ...
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In bash I did the following. This if expression will evaluate to true if the Redhat version is 7.5 or 7.6. if [[ ` cat /etc/redhat-release | awk '{print $7}' ` == "7.5" ]] || [[ ` cat /etc/redhat-...
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My os was installed from debian 8.5.0 amd64. Execute commands after installation. cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux 8 \n \l No 8.5 here. cat /proc/version Linux version 3.16.0-4-amd64 (debian-kernel@...
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I saw this post on all the different ways to find out what distro is installed, so I'm trying to write a script that tries them all. The possible commands include: $ cat /etc/lsb-release $ cat /etc/...
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The skype website offers downloads for linux in 2 versions DEB and RPM. I don't know which one is right for my computer.
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I have host without dpkg so I need to install it. I followed the instructions from here and here. On both of these answers they wrote that I need to download the file: wget http://security.ubuntu.com/...
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I have written a bash script which is checking OS version and count for available security patches according to OS distribution. The query here is the script is not working for Ubuntu OS. The script ...
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I'm writing a shell script that should be able to be used with a variety of Linux distros. I want to see what base the distro is, without hardcoding everything (since there are hundreds of distros), ...
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Assume a Linux Desktop Environment system is installed. When powered on and credentials entered, whatever Desktop Environment is started i would consider the default Desktop Environment. The user may ...
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I want to automate some installation process. For that, I need to know whether it is a DEB or RPM distribution, Im able to find some scripts for find the OS distribution. I need to write a script to ...
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On Bodhi linux, if I do this : . /etc/os-release echo $NAME the output is : "Ubuntu", this makes it extra hard to determine what is what for a script. and this will be important when calling apps ...
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