distro-info (1) Linux Manual Page

distro-info – provides information about the distributions’ releases

Synopsis

distro-info [OPTIONS]

Description

distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution. On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info. All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

Options

–date=DATE

date for calculating the version (default: today)

-h, –help

display help message and exit

-a, –all

list all known versions

-y[MILESTONE], –days[=MILESTONE]

display number of days until specified version reaches the specified milestone. MILESTONE may be one of created, release, eol, or eol-server. If no milestone is specified, assume release. For options that return a list, display the normal output followed by whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone.

-d, –devel

latest development version

–series=SERIES

series to calculate the version for

-s, –stable

latest stable version

–supported

list of all supported versions, including development releases

–unsupported

list of all unsupported stable versions

-c, –codename

print the codename (default)

-r, –release

print the release version

-f, –fullname

print the full name

See Also

debian-distro-info(1), ubuntu-distro-info(1)

Author

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung [at] debian.org>.