UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1)

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💖 UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO — the manual page, bestie edition 💖

okay so you want the tea on Ubuntu's releases? say less. ubuntu-distro-info is a little legend from the distro-info manual (section 1, General Commands Manual, iykyk) and its whole job is spilling information about Ubuntu's distributions. she's giving oracle energy and we're obsessed. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ubuntu-distro-info — provides information about Ubuntu's distributions 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ubuntu-distro-info [OPTIONS]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. no positional args, just you and a pile of options deciding which lil fact you want her to hand you. 🎀

👑 OPTIONS 👑

so many flags, and honestly? every single one of them serves. listed in the exact order the manpage gives them, no cap:

  • --date=DATE — tells her what DATE to use when she's calculating the version. default? it's the epoch from the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable if that's set, and otherwise it's literally just today. she's flexible like that. 🌈
  • -h, --help — shows the help message and dips. classic. the "hey bestie, read the room" button. 💖
  • -a, --all — lists every version she knows about. the full collection. the whole closet. ✨
  • -y[MILESTONE], --days[=MILESTONE] — this one's the main character fr. it shows you how many days are left until the specified version hits the specified milestone. MILESTONE can be one of created, release, eol, or eol-server. if you don't specify a milestone at all, she just assumes release. and here's the mechanics: for options that hand back a list, she prints the normal output first, then whitespace, then the number of days until that milestone. if the milestone literally cannot be calculated (like, say, you asked for the eol-server milestone on a non-server release, which, girl, no), then you get the string (unknown) instead. and unless you also passed one of -c, -f, or -r, only the number of days shows up — that's it, that's all. 🗓️
  • -d, --devel — the latest development version. the unreleased one. the one still cooking. 👀
  • -l, --latest — prints the latest development version. but heads up: if the distribution data is outdated, she'll print the latest stable version instead. she works with the info she's got, okay? 🙈
  • --lts — the latest long term support (LTS) version. the one you commit to. the long-term relationship of releases. 💜
  • --series=SERIES — specify which SERIES she should calculate the version for. 🎯
  • -s, --stable — the latest stable version. the reliable bae. 🫶
  • --supported — a list of all supported versions, and yes that includes the development release. everybody's invited. 🎉
  • --supported-esm — a list of all Ubuntu Advantage supported stable versions. ⭐
  • --supported-legacy — a list of all stable versions supported by Ubuntu Pro with the Legacy add-on. the vintage corner of the release family. 🧚
  • --unsupported — a list of all unsupported stable versions. they've been retired, we still love them. 💀
  • -c, --codename — prints the codename. this is the default behaviour, so if you pass nothing else, this is what you get. 🏷️
  • -r, --release — prints the release version. 🔢
  • -f, --fullname — prints the full name. the whole government name. 📛

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read her sisters, they're iconic too:

💖 AUTHOR 💖

the script and this manual page were written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>. give them their flowers, they wrote the whole thing and we're just vibing on top of it. 👑

just so we're clear bestie: everything above is exactly what the original page says, just with the volume turned up. same flags, same defaults, same (unknown), same SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH. no invented lore. periodt. 💅

<nice>and that's the whole page!! this was distro-info manual content, dated September 2026, and the page is titled UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1). mwah, go date some distributions. 💖✨🎀</nice>

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