UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1) General Commands Manual UBUNTU-DISTRO-INFO(1)

ubuntu-distro-info - provides information about Ubuntu's distributions

ubuntu-distro-info [OPTIONS]

date for calculating the version (default: epoch taken from SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable if set, otherwise today)
display help message and exit
list all known versions
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. If milestone cannot be calculated (for example if the eol-server milestone is specified for a non-server release), the string '(unknown)' is displayed. Unless one of -c, -f or -r is specified, only the number of days will be displayed.
latest development version
prints the latest development version. In case of outdated distribution data, the latest stable version will be printed.
latest long term support (LTS) version
series to calculate the version for
latest stable version
list of all supported versions, including the development release
list of all Ubuntu Advantage supported stable versions
list of all unsupported stable versions
print the codename (default)
print the release version
print the full name

debian-distro-info(1), distro-info(1)

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung <bdrung@debian.org>.

August 2013 distro-info