Request for explanation of error message

Bret Busby bret.busby at gmail.com
Sat Jul 27 19:55:46 UTC 2019


On 28/07/2019, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jul 2019 20:54:19 +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
>>Whilst I do not know how to get uname to show the Ubuntu version
>>number, the console shows it as 18.04.2 .
>
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/lsb_release.1.html
>
> [weremouse at moonstudio ~]$ lsb_release -a
> LSB
> Version:	core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:core-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-amd64:security-9.20160110ubuntu0.2-noarch
> Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
> Description:	Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS
> Release:	16.04
> Codename:	xenial
>
>

Thank you for that.

"
bret at bret-MD34045-2521:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Release:	18.04
Codename:	bionic
"


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Bret Busby
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West Australia
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