what is the version of everything???

landog · 02-27-2006, 02:40 PM

How can I tell the version I have installed of the following?

Linux
PHP
MySQl
Apache

(This IS the newbie category, right?

)

thanks
-dog

esteeven · 02-27-2006, 02:47 PM

oops. sorry.

tuxrules · 02-27-2006, 02:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by landog

How can I tell the version I have installed of the following?

Linux
PHP
MySQl
Apache

(This IS the newbie category, right?

)

thanks
-dog

1. uname -r
2. php --version
3. mysql --version
4. httpd --version

perfect_circle · 02-27-2006, 02:49 PM

this is a distro-specific question, since not all distros use the same packet management system (rpm,deb,tgz etc), so better provide some info about your distro.

Anyway in most cases you can also find this out by using the --version option in the executables

Code:

skalkoto@darkstar:~$ mysql --version
mysql  Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.18, for slackware-linux-gnu (i486) using  EditLine wrapper

What do you mean with linux?
linux is as a kernel or as a distro.

You can find out the kernel version with this command:

Code:

skalkoto@darkstar:~$ uname -r
2.6.15.3
skalkoto@darkstar:~$

Dtsazza · 02-28-2006, 07:49 AM

...and the distro (and version) can be found in some *version file inside /etc; for example:

Code:

adoyle@dangermouse:~$ ls /etc/*version
/etc/debian_version               <-- tells me I'm running some version of Debian
adoyle@dangermouse:~$ cat /etc/debian_version 
testing/unstable                  <-- the version of Debian I'm running

The same holds for every distro I'm aware of; some (e.g. RedHat) combine both distro and version in an /etc/version file.

rickh · 02-28-2006, 08:19 AM

Sounds like somebody's homework to me.

Dtsazza · 02-28-2006, 08:37 AM

If so, homework's got a lot easier since I were a lad*...

*and I'm only 22 now!