distro-info (1)

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NAME

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 stable versions

--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@debian.org>.