how do i know what version of oss

boxerboy · 10-06-2005, 04:18 PM

hi i downloaded and installed suse 10.0 a while ago and im not sure if i have one of the betas or rcs. is there a way to find this out? also the reason i ask is i was just at bugzilla and looked at firefox issue and it said resolved but i dont know if for my version or what. if you can please advise. thank you sorry forgot to add that the yast is telling me theres updates all the updates are for firefox to go to 1.0.7 and mozilla browser. but last time i went to ff 1.0.7 it didnt work that is the bug i was looking for not sure if that was one i found. it said something about ff 1.0.7 not opening while subdomain was running im not real sure what the person meant by sub domain so im not sure if it applies.

Mega Man X · 10-06-2005, 04:24 PM

Try opening a terminal and typing:

rpm -qa | grep rcs

boxerboy · 10-06-2005, 04:33 PM

thank you i did that and i got this

Code:

boxerboy@linux:~> rpm -qa | grep rcs
torcs-1.2.4-2
boxerboy@linux:~>

not real sure what that means is that the right output im looking for and if so what does it mean?

Mega Man X · 10-07-2005, 01:58 AM

If the package you are looking for is torcs, then it's right

. I'm not quite sure which package you are looking for, so replace the rcs for the package/application you wanna find.

rpm -qa | grep rcs

means to query or list (q) all (a) rpm's. Take that output list (|) and use as input to grep, which by it turns will display only rcs.

This should work with any rpm based distribution. Other distributions are different, Slackware, for example, has a list of all installed packages at /var/packages or something like that (can't remember the whole path

).

Now, if you are actually looking for which distribution you are using, it can be a bit more tricky. Try "uname -rs", it will display your kernel version and hopefully your distributions name and version.

If I'm getting all this wrong, please tell me what you are looking for, I'm not sure if it's firefox, SuSE version or torcs or something else

Regards!