DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1)

📦
version 1.20 · 2 versions
, in arch rolling, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) ✨

General Commands Manual 💖

🌸 NAME

okay so debian-distro-info is the tool that gives you the lowdown on Debian's distributions 🦋

💅 SYNOPSIS

debian-distro-info [OPTIONS]

📖 DESCRIPTION

bestie, this one is literally your Debian release encyclopedia 📚✨ ask it about a distro and it spills the tea on the version, codename, and dates. no cap, it's iconic.

🎀 OPTIONS

  • --date=DATE — pick the date used for working out the version 📅 if you don't set one, it uses the epoch from the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable (if that's set), otherwise it just goes with today 🕰️
  • -h, --help — shows you a help message and then bounces 👋
  • --alias=DIST — prints the alias (oldstable, stable, testing, or unstable) that matches the codename you hand it 🔮 only codenames made of lowercase ASCII letters are accepted, fr fr. if your codename isn't one of those four aliases, you just get the same codename back, no drama 💀
  • -a, --all — lists every version it knows about 📜
  • -y[MILESTONE], --days[=MILESTONE] — shows how many days are left until your chosen version hits a milestone ⏳ the milestone can be created, release, or eol, and if you don't pick one it assumes release 🎯 for options that return a whole list, you get the normal output, then some whitespace, then the day count for that milestone ✨ if the milestone can't be figured out, you'll see (unknown) 🙈 unless you use one of -c, -f, or -r, you only get the number of days, nothing else 🌈
  • -d, --devel — the latest development version 🧪
  • -o, --old — the latest old (stable) version 🕰️
  • --series=SERIES — the series you want the version calculated for 🎯
  • -s, --stable — the latest stable version 💜
  • --supported — lists every supported version, development releases included 🫶
  • -t, --testing — the latest testing version 🧁
  • --unsupported — lists all the unsupported stable versions 🪦
  • -c, --codename — prints the codename 🏷️ this is the default, so you get it if you don't ask for anything else 💅
  • -r, --release — prints the release version 🔢
  • -f, --fullname — prints the full name 🌟

🦋 SEE ALSO

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

🫶 AUTHOR

the script and this manual page were written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org> ✨ slay, we love a legend 👑

bestie, that's the whole page! 🌈💖 it's the distro-info source at version August 2013, and this manual lives on DEBIAN-DISTRO-INFO(1) 💅🎀

📦 where this page comes from