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javanoob
Asked: 2010-11-20 09:39:40 +0800 CST

What distribution am I using? [duplicate]

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How can I find the version of installed Ubuntu?

This question may find silly but here is the question..

My friend sent me a laptop from U.S. and he said he installed KDE on Ubuntu..

How do i confirm that if it is KDE over ubuntu or Kubuntu?

I am looking for some command that i can execute in terminal to find the info

kubuntu-netbook

3 Answers

  1. In terminal type,

    lsb_release -a

    It will give you the similar output like mine,

    karthick@Ubuntu-desktop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release:    10.04
Codename:   lucid

    In my case from the Distributor ID you can see that i am using Ubuntu distribution.

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  2. Best Answer

    Check to see if the ubuntu-desktop package is installed or has ever been installed.

    dpkg -l ubuntu-desktop

    If you get this:-

    No packages found matching ubuntu-desktop.

    Then it wasn't installed from an Ubuntu medium, and so chances are it was either built up from minimal install or from a Kubuntu CD.

    If you see a line that starts:-

    un ubuntu-desktop

    Then Ubuntu (GNOME variant) was installed but has now been removed. So chances are it was an Ubuntu install onto which KDE was added.

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  3. Try looking in Synaptic for kubuntu-desktop package installed, as apposed to just KDE packages. I think if you have kubuntu-desktop installed it is pretty sure to be Kubuntu and not just KDE packages installed on Ubuntu, but I haven't used Kubuntu for some time.

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