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Asked: 2017-01-02 06:56:16 +0800 CST

Is there any way to restore the distribution name? [duplicate]

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I installed Ubuntu on my desktop years ago, and decided to add the BunsenLabs repository and install Bunsen desktop there. However there is one little thing: the package also replace the /etc/os-release. My question is how do I restore my os-release and also the lsb-release(which was also modified) back to it's original?

Original OS info: Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit Xenial Xerus

New OS info: BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.6 (Hydrogen)

My current os-release

ANSI_COLOR="0;34"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/BunsenLabs"
HOME_URL="https://bunsenlabs.org"
ID=bunsenlabs
ID_LIKE="debian"
NAME="BunsenLabs GNU/Linux"
PRETTY_NAME="BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.6 (Hydrogen)"
SUPPORT_URL="https://forums.bunsenlabs.org"
VERSION="8.6 (Hydrogen)"
VERSION_ID="8.6"

My current lsb-release

DISTRIB_ID="BunsenLabs"
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.6 (Hydrogen)"
DISTRIB_RELEASE="8.6"
DISTRIB_CODENAME="bunsen-hydrogen"

Output of apt-cache policy base-files

base-files:
  Installed: 9.4ubuntu4.3
  Candidate: 9.4ubuntu4.3
  Version table:
 *** 9.4ubuntu4.3 500
        500 http://opensource.xtdv.net/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     9.4ubuntu4 500
        500 http://opensource.xtdv.net/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages
etc

1 Answers

  1. I found my answer.

    According to a site an user linked to me, the command dpkg -S os-release showed:

    diversion by bunsen-os-release from: /etc/os-release
diversion by bunsen-os-release to: /etc/os-release.bunsen-orig

    Inside the os-release.bunsen-orig is the original os-release file. I also noticed that the os-release is just a simlink to os-release.bunsen and the os-release.bunsen-orig is the simlink to the "very" original os-release file which was in /usr/lib/os-release. Since I am too lazy to figure out how to make simlinks I simply copied the os-release.bunsen-orig to os-release.

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