Re: Determining Exact Linux Version

See if you can do this:
cat /etc/issue

It's there in CentOS, not sure what Amazon is using.

Jess

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Mike Rathburn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have to do a manual install of an RPM package (openoffice-writer) on an
> Amazon Linux AMI.  The package isn't available via Amazon's yum
> repositories.  I know that Amazon Linux is enterprise linux (EPEL), per the
> info here: http://aws.amazon.com/amazon-linux-ami/
>
>
>
> The RPM will be grabbed from here:  http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3
> <
> http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3?stat=3&limit=1&srodzaj=3&dl=40&search=openo
> ffice.org-writer> &limit=1&srodzaj=3&dl=40&search=openoffice.org-writer
>
>
>
> When I do a 'uname -a' on the machine, I get:
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> Linux ec2-187-77-143-124.compute-1.amazonaws.com2.6.35.14-106.49.amzn1.i686
> #1 SMP Fri Dec 2 18:20:01 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
>
> Can anyone provide some insight as to what RPM version I should be pulling?
> I'm suspecting some version of CentOS.  Is there another place to look to
> get more detailed info on what I have?
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> -MikeR
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