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Asked: 2013-02-08 08:48:04 +0800 CST

Do some debian builds not have lsb_release?

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A .deb package I am releasing expects that it can call lsb_release. One customer using Debian 6.0.5 indicated that the lsb_release command (even in the terminal) produces a command not found error. Is this standard or is there something wrong with his Debian build?

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  1. There is an lsb-release package that supplies the lsb_release command. This is separate from the lsb, lsb-base, and lsb-core packages. None of the lsb packages are essential. So if your package needs lsb_release it should specify that it depends on lsb-release.

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  2. Not all Debian builds have lsb_release. For example, even the official Ubuntu Docker image does not have lsb_release.

    The alternative is to use cat /etc/os-release.

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