How can I find the version of the Fedora I use?

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sudo find /etc | xargs grep -i fedora > searchFedora

gives:

/etc/netplug.d/netplug: # At least on Fedora Core 1
...

But see the Fedora version in the /etc/netplug.d/netplug file. Is it serious?

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score 187 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 01 '18 at 03:54

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cat /etc/issue

Or cat /etc/fedora-release as suggested by @Bruce ONeel

edited Apr 01 '18 at 03:54

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answered Feb 12 '09 at 09:31

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Thanks, Indeed is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5) – pindare Feb 12 '09 at 09:47
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However, this won't work if anyone's changed the login banners … I typically edit mine, and so, it seems, do many (most) corporate IT departments... :-( – BRPocock Dec 02 '11 at 16:05
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That's a wrong answer. The answer of @BruceONeel should be accepted as the correct one – Igor Chubin May 07 '17 at 15:33
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Doesn't work in fedora 26. However Bruce's answer works. – Leo Ufimtsev Sep 29 '17 at 16:29
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```\S Kernel \r on an \m (\l) ``` – MariuszS Nov 09 '17 at 08:16
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/etc/fedora-release seems to be the good one, unless I have Fedora version "\S Kernel \r on an \m (\l)" LOL – runlevel0 Nov 21 '19 at 14:03

score 157 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 18 '15 at 13:14

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You can also try /etc/redhat-release or /etc/fedora-release:

cat /etc/fedora-release 
Fedora release 7 (Moonshine)

edited Nov 18 '15 at 13:14

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answered Feb 12 '09 at 10:38

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`cat /etc/redhat-release` works for me too, but the better is `cat /etc/os-release` which really gives detailled information. – Olivier Faucheux Sep 04 '15 at 12:02

score 59 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 01 '13 at 10:03

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The proposed standard file is /etc/os-release. See http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.html

You can execute something like:

$ source /etc/os-release
$ echo $ID
fedora
$ echo $VERSION_ID
17
$ echo $VERSION
17 (Beefy Miracle)

answered Jun 01 '13 at 10:03

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I never thought of using `source` to load the variables, I always tried to parse the values. Brilliant! – wisbucky Aug 13 '18 at 22:22

score 25 · Answer 4 · edited Dec 12 '16 at 20:54

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The simplest command which can give you what you need but some other good info too is:

hostnamectl

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answered Sep 23 '16 at 08:23

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This is definitely the most convenient answer and also shows the bitness. Nice! – Joshua Sleeper Aug 24 '18 at 22:06

score 22 · Answer 5 · edited Dec 12 '16 at 20:56

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You could try

lsb_release -a

which works on at least Debian and Ubuntu (and since it's LSB, it should surely be on most of the other mainstream distros at least). http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/sourceforge/l/ls/lsb/lsb_release-1.0-1.i386.html suggests it's been around quite a while.

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answered Feb 12 '09 at 11:03

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It's in package `redhat-lsb`, which wasn't installed by default on my box at work, at least (Fedora 15) (corporate IT fail?) but was on my home Fedora 16 box. (Not sure if it's a default package or not) – BRPocock Dec 02 '11 at 16:03
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Or `lsb_release -d` for a shorter output. – ROMANIA_engineer Dec 12 '16 at 21:02

score 14 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 21 '17 at 09:33

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cat /etc/*release

It's universal for almost any major distribution.

answered Sep 21 '17 at 09:33

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This is very true! This command can be used on practically any Linux distro. – specialk1st Nov 26 '17 at 09:03

score 7 · Answer 7 · answered Aug 16 '17 at 17:45

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These commands worked for Artik 10 :

cat /etc/fedora-release
cat /etc/issue
hostnamectl

and these others didn't :

lsb_release -a
uname -a

answered Aug 16 '17 at 17:45

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score 6 · Answer 8 · edited Dec 18 '11 at 20:04

[Belmiro@HP-550 ~]$ uname -a

Linux HP-550 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Feb 11 07:06:34 UTC 2010
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


[Belmiro@HP-550 ~]$ lsb_release -a

LSB Version: :core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:deskt
op-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch
Distributor ID: Fedora
Description: Fedora release 11 (Leonidas)
Release: 11
Codename: Leonidas
[Belmiro@HP-550 ~]$

score 6 · Answer 9 · answered Feb 12 '09 at 10:11

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What about uname -a ?

answered Feb 12 '09 at 10:11

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That gives the version of the Linux kernel, which might be from a different version of FC or RHEL. It's debatable if the OS remains that reported by /etc/issue if you change the kernel, but there you are. :) – David Grant Feb 12 '09 at 10:14
uname -a does not give the distrib but kernel, network, machine, processor, hardware and GNU/Linux for operating system! That is not enough. – pindare Feb 12 '09 at 12:19
uname -a on fedora 19: Linux hostname 3.11.4-201.fc19.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 10 14:11:18 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux the kernel of fedora has the fedora version embedded in the filename as you can see :) will rerun this command after upgrading to fedora 20 (fedup is running atm, will report back afterwards if the kernel filename changed or not) – Jascha Ehrenreich Oct 16 '13 at 11:38
Linux hostname 3.11.4-301.fc20.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 10 15:09:17 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux thats the output of uname -a after running fedup-cli to update to fedora 20. – Jascha Ehrenreich Oct 16 '13 at 17:35

score 3 · Answer 10 · answered Aug 13 '17 at 14:08

On my installation of Fedora 25 (workstation) all of the distribution ID info was found in this file:

/usr/lib/os.release.d/os-release-workstation

This included,

NAME=Fedora
VERSION="25 (Workstation Edition)"
ID=fedora
VERSION_ID=25
PRETTY_NAME="Fedora 25 (Workstation Edition)"
<...>
VARIANT="Workstation Edition"
VARIANT_ID=workstation

score 3 · Answer 11 · answered May 19 '22 at 09:34

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You can simply run this command to get the version number:

rpm -E %fedora

output:

answered May 19 '22 at 09:34

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score 0 · Answer 12 · answered Aug 17 '23 at 09:41

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cat /etc/os-release

Works both on Fedora and Silverblue.

answered Aug 17 '23 at 09:41

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score 0 · Answer 13 · answered Jun 06 '09 at 22:46

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uname -a works with my fc11

answered Jun 06 '09 at 22:46

score -1 · Answer 14 · answered May 18 '21 at 08:53

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use commmand , screenfetch output format info.

answered May 18 '21 at 08:53

prownd

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Please give a little more details to your solution. – Andy A. May 18 '21 at 11:10

How can I find the version of the Fedora I use?

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