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What Distro do I have?

Asked by WacoJohn

I have an ISO of 8.10 64 bit, .. burned it to a CD. Used Mobi thinking it would use the cd, but instead it downloaded some Ubuntu 8.10 and installed it. How do I know if it is 64-bit 8.10?

Sorry, seems like a stupid question. I confirmed with cat /etc/issue that it is 8.10 but don't know if it is 64-bit or not. Thank you.

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Waffleman (waffle-barkingfrogs) said : 		#1

Find a system executable (/usr/sbin) and type "file name" where name is the executable.

It will tell you if it is 32-bit or 64-bit.

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Best Luky Winarto (luckyborneo) said : 		#2

Have you try this command yet:
$ uname -a
Linux MyUbuntu 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 01:04:16 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

x86_64 indicates that your ubuntu is 64 bit.

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WacoJohn (johnbooth) said : 		#3

owner@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:28:32 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
owner@ubuntu:~$

close enough ... thank you guys, ... immensely.

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ahowell (alan-howell) said : 		#4

cat /etc/lsb-release

You should see something like the following:
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

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WacoJohn (johnbooth) said : 		#5

Thanks Luky Winarto, that solved my question.