How to check os version in linux ubuntu

When we want to install the Software on our system, first we must know whether our current Operating System is supporting this version of the software or not.

In Windows, we can easily check it as Windows is based on a GUI-based Operating System.

But we prefer to use the Command line instead of the GUI in an Operating System like Linus/Unix.

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In this article, we will learn how to check the details of the Operating System we are using in Linux. We will work with one of the Linux distributions of Linux named UBUNTU. We will discuss How to check the Version of Ubuntu.

5 Simple Ways to Check the Linux OS Version:

In this article, we will work on one of the distributions of Linux, which is Ubuntu.

So we will discuss different ways to Check the Version of Ubuntu.

1) Using the os-release file available in Linux’s etc directory to check the Version of Ubuntu.

We can check the Linux Operating System (OS) information by running the below command.

cat /etc/os-release

Output:

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