October 12, 2018

Tom's Debian linux notes

I am an old hand with Fedora distributions, but am just getting started with Debian. Something called "cron-apt" can be used to periodically update the package list and download new packages (but without installing them). Files that manage apt are in /etc/apt. In particular, the repository list is in "sources.list"

What debian release am I running?

Debian releases receive 3 years of full support and 2 years of extra LTS (long term support). 
uname -a
Linux xxxhostxxx 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u3 (2015-08-04) x86_64 GNU/Linux

lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Debian
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.2 (jessie)
Release:	8.2
Codename:	jessie

cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Debian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Debian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.debian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.debian.org/support/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.debian.org/"
So, I am running "Jessie". Jessie was released on 4/26/2015.
As of 2018 there is now "Stretch", released on 6/17/2017, this is Debian 9.

Given the 5 year support cycle, Jessie is on its last year in 2019.

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Adventures in Computing / tom@mmto.org