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Which Version Of Linux Mint Am I Running?

This post will show you how to check which version of Linux Mint you are running. This can be done both through the graphical user interface or command line, we’ll cover both options here.

How To Check Linux Mint Version

Command Line

We’ll start by showing you how to check the Linux Mint version through command line, as this is quick and easy and can even be done remotely through SSH.

My favourite ways are to simply cat the /etc/issue, /etc/linuxmint/info, or /etc/os-release files. As shown below, we can see in multiple locations that I am running Linux Mint 18.1 Serena.

[email protected] ~ $ cat /etc/issue Linux Mint 18.1 Serena \n \l [email protected] ~ $ cat /etc/linuxmint/info RELEASE=18.1 CODENAME=serena EDITION="Cinnamon 64-bit" DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 18.1 Serena" GRUB_TITLE=Linux Mint 18.1 Cinnamon 64-bit [email protected] ~ $ cat /etc/os-release NAME="Linux Mint" VERSION="18.1 (Serena)" ID=linuxmint PRETTY_NAME="Linux Mint 18.1" VERSION_ID="18.1" VERSION_CODENAME=serena

All of these files can be read by any user on the system, root privileges are not required.

Graphical User Interface

If you instead prefer to check the version of Linux Mint in use through the graphical user interface (GUI), follow these steps.

From the Menu, select Preferences > System Info. Any user can perform this action.

This will open the System Info window, which shows that we are running Linux Mint 18.1 with Cinnamon.

With just a few clicks we’ve quickly been able to see which version of Linux Mint is installed.

Summary

We have shown you how to quickly and easily check which version of Linux Mint is in use through both the command line and graphical user interface.

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How to find Linux distribution name and Version?

While you are working on new Linux distribution, you might not know which Linux version is installed on your system. Sometimes, you need to meet a few system requirements while running an application on your system. However, different ways are available to check the Version of installed Linux distribution. Linux Mint 20 is the most growing Linux distribution and has a number of available graphical user interfaces that may vary from one user to the other. Hence, each user may also have a different running procedure. For this purpose, the recommended solution is to access and open the terminal command-line application.

In this article, we will learn how to check the installed Linux distribution name and Version on Linux Mint 20.

Pre-requisites

You must have ‘sudo’ privileges or log in from the root user account on your system.

Check name and Version on Linux Mint 20

You can check the name and installed Linux distribution version using the following two different ways:

• Check name and Version in Linux Mint 20 through the command line
• Check Version using a graphical user interface method in Linux Mint 20

Let’s discuss each method one by one in detail.

Method 1: Check name and Version in Linux Mint 20 through the command line

Some users prefer to use the command line instead of the graphical user interface in Linux systems. Hence, using the command line, you have more options to get details about the installed Linux Mint distribution. To check the name and version of the Linux system on Linux Mint 20 environment, you need to follow the following different steps:

To open the terminal application, just log in to your Linux Mint 20 system and then click on the terminal icon that will be displayed on the taskbar.

Or you can pick the terminal by accessing the main menu. You can see the below-given screenshot, which is highlighted red:

In Linux distribution, specifically for Linux Mint 20, there are a lot of various utilities and text files present, which may help you to find the Linux Mint version. You can search the file that contains more information about the installed Linux Mint version, and that is available for all Debian based Linux/GNU distributions. This file you can find at etc/issue. Run the below-mentioned command on the terminal that will display the installed Linux Mint version:

After executing the above command, the following output will show on the terminal:

Display installed Version Using hostnamectl utility:

The most common utility or command that is available for almost all Linux systems is ‘hostnamectl.’ It displays detailed information about the currently running operating system. To display the installed version of Linux distribution using ‘hostnamectl’ utility, follow the appended method:

Type the following command on the terminal to display the information about the installed Linux Mint version:

The above command will display the complete information about the currently used operating environment and loaded kernel version. The following details about the installed Linux system to be displayed on the terminal:

The one, more file option ‘/etc/linuxmint/info,’ is available on the Linux Mint 20 distribution that keeps the details about the kernel and installed Version. Execute the following command on the terminal to view the kernel details:

The following output should display on the terminal window:

One more popular command which is available on Linux Mint is the ‘lsb_release’ command that provides much flexibility to select which piece of information is important for you to include in the Version checking task. To reveal the information about the released Version, distributor details, and codename, then you need to execute the following command:

After executing the above command, you will achieve the following information on the terminal window:

Type the following command to view the information about Linux Mint:

The following installed distribution details will display on the terminal screen:

Or you can also execute the following command to check the installed version of Linux Mint on your system:

You will see the following detailed information about the Linux Mint version:

Method 2: Check version using the graphical user interface method in Linux Mint 20

As we have discussed above, various Desktop environment managers are available for all Linux Mint distributions. So, you need to follow the following steps to check the installed Linux Mint version for Cinnamon Desktop.

• Click on the start menu, the following application list menu will display on the system.
• Click on the ‘system settings’ icon from the list, which is also highlighted in the below-given screenshot.

• Once you click on the system settings, the following window will display your system where you will see the different management applications. Scroll the mouse cursor on the displayed window and click on the ‘system info’ icon as follows:

The following window will display on your system:

From the above screenshot, you can get the details about the currently installed operating system, cinnamon version, Linux kernel, and other system resources like processor, memory, hard drive, and graphics card.

Conclusion

From the above article, we have learned how to check the details about the name and installed Version of Linux Mint. You can get detailed information about your system by following this tutorial. From all the information, as mentioned above, I hope now you can find the installed Version of any Linux distribution. We have discussed two different ways, i.e., by using a command line and by using a graphical user interface, through which a user can display the information about the installed Linux distribution. If you feel any difficulty related to the ways as mentioned above, then let us know via your feedback through the comments. We will welcome your queries.

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I am a self-motivated information technology professional with a passion for writing. I am a technical writer and love to write for all Linux flavors and Windows.

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How to check which version of Linux Mint you are using

In this tutorial you will learn different methods to check which version of Linux version you are using.

This information is useful when you are having issues and want to troubleshoot them, or simply want to know more about the operating system that you are using.

You can read this information via different methods, via System info app or via terminal by typing the command.

Checking which version via Menu

Go to «Menu» , next go to «Preferences» and select «System info» from the list of the apps on the right side

or simply type System Info in the search bar so the «System Info» app comes up.

And the System Info window will show up with all the information about your version of Linux mint

Note: The button «Upload system information» uploads all the data you see on the window above to an server online, actually the uploaded data contains a lot more information than shown on the system info window, so please do this at your own risk.

When you click to that button, it runs the inxi command

You can run this command on terminal and see the information that gets uploaded to the server if you click the upload button, the purpose and the goal of this feature is for troubleshooting and reporting bugs, however you should know what information you upload online to a server that you don’t own. Better safe than sorry!

Checking which version via Terminal

The Linux Standard Base Command will display distributor id, distro name, distro description, release number and codename of the os.

The output of the command should look like the image shown below

By using the cat command you can read the information that’s located on /etc/linuxmint/info, just type cat /etc/linuxmint/info and it will display more details about your distro in this case Linux Mint

As you can see on the image above, the output contains release, codename, edition, description, desktop, toolkit, new features, release notes, user guide and grub title.

If you want this information exported to a txt file, you can do so by simply running the command below

This command will create a txt file with all the output shown on the terminal

cat /etc/linuxmint/info > info.txt

For example: I’m running this command from «Desktop» which means the file named info.txt which contains all the information about your Linux mint , will be created on Desktop.

You can also set your preferred path where you want this file to be created by specifying the path location, replace /home/user/folder/ with your own path.

cat /etc/linuxmint/info > /home/user/folder/info.txt

The «info.txt» file should look like this

Conclusion

By now you should know how to check which version and more details about Linux Mint. There are more commands to do this, but I covered the ones that are very easy and display more than enough information about distro name, version, release etc.

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