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how to detect Ubuntu updated version

Asked by achevrier

Hi
I would like to know which updated version of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake version I'm running ?
I know how to detect version of Ubuntu using "lsb_release -a" in console, but what about updated information ?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

The changelogs for each package are held at http://changelogs.ubuntu.com, you can access them directly or you can get Synaptic to get them for you using Package --> Download Changelog within Synaptic.

You can also see the changelogs in /usr/share/doc/*/changelog*.gz

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achevrier (a-chevrier-pro) said : 		#2

Hi Alan,
Sorry, I'm not sure to have correctly explain my request.
I'm wandering how to have information about the 6.06 dapper drake LTS update version I'm using.
I thought I could find it using a way like menu->system->about ubuntu, like for any else product. But this way only open a help menu documentation.
Does your solution answer to this question ?
I've followed your links or try to find changelog*.gz, but I've not succeed in.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#3

you can use

    dpkg-query -l

to get the version information of all the packages installed.

Ubuntu itself does not change its version identification because you install or upgrade particular packages inside it.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said : 		#4

For the lsb_version to show if you do "lsb_release -a", you must install lsb-core with

    sudo apt-get install lsb-core

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Best achevrier (a-chevrier-pro) said : 		#5

Yesterday I received, installed and chose with grub, an automatic update called kernel 2.6.15.28-686.
I suppose that's the last Ubuntu updated version I'm using.
Thank you for your help.

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arcs123 (arcseldon) said : 		#6

Thanks to Ralph for his info on lsb-core above.

Was getting an error message using fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 when running lsb_release -a stating:

No LSB modules are available.

By running sudo apt-get install lsb-core the problem was resolved. had to do quite a bit of googling around to reach this page so thought it may be worth adding this in case anyone else gets that particular message.