distro-info(1)

distro-info1

Provides information about the distributions' releases

Usage

distro-info [OPTIONS]

Overview

distro-info is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution. On Debian it links to debian-distro-info and on Ubuntu it links to ubuntu-distro-info. All options described in this manual page are available in all distro-info commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

Options

--date=DATE

date for calculating the version (default: epoch taken from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable if set, otherwise today)

-h, --help

display help message and exit

-a, --all

list all known versions

-y[MILESTONE], --days[=MILESTONE]

display number of days until specified version reaches the specified milestone. MILESTONE may be one of created, release, eol, or eol-server. If no milestone is specified, assume release. For options that return a list, display the normal output followed by whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone.

-d, --devel

latest development version

--series=SERIES

series to calculate the version for

-s, --stable

latest stable version

--supported

list of all supported versions, including development releases

--unsupported

list of all unsupported stable versions

-c, --codename

print the codename (default)

-r, --release

print the release version

-f, --fullname

print the full name

Releases

8 releases since Debian 7 (Wheezy); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 7
  2. 8–11
  3. 12
  4. 13–Arch

--days since Debian 8 (Jessie); --series since Debian 8 (Jessie); -y since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Author

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <[email protected]>.

From distro-info 1.20-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.