Method 1: How to Check the Ubuntu Version Using Terminal?<\/h2>\n
We can check the Ubuntu version via terminal using the following different commands:<\/p>\n
Check Ubuntu Version via lsb_release Command<\/h3>\n
Press the Ctrl+Alt+t\u2019 keyboard shortcut to open the Terminal. Or you can open it by clicking on the terminal icon.<\/p>\n
The \u2018lsb_relaese\u2019<\/strong> is a command-line utility that prints the LSB (Linux Standard Base) information about Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution. Most users prefer this method to check the Ubuntu version because it displays the installed version of any Linux distribution no matter which Ubuntu version is running on your system.<\/p>\n Run the \u2018lsb_release\u2019 command along with the option \u2018-a\u2019 to check which Ubuntu version is currently running on your system:<\/p>\n The installed Ubuntu version will display in the description. As you can see, Ubuntu 22.04 version is installed on this system. If you want to see only the installed version description in a line instead of displaying all other details, you can use the \u2018lsb_release\u2019 command with option \u2018-d\u2019:<\/p>\n Now, the Ubuntu version will show in a description line.<\/p>\n The \u2018\/etc\/os-release\u2019 file contains the information about operating system identification. You can locate this file on the Ubuntu 16.04 or the latest Ubuntu versions of those running systemd services. To check the Ubuntu 22.04 version using the \u2018\/etc\/os-release\u2019 file, run the \u2018cat\u2019 command:<\/p>\n You will see the following details on the terminal:<\/p>\n The \/etc\/issue file contains the information about the currently installed Ubuntu version. Use the \u2018cat\u2019 command to check the installed Ubuntu version:<\/p>\n You will receive the following output on the terminal screen:<\/p>\n The \u2018hostnamectl\u2019 command can use for different purposes. For example, you can set or change your system\u2019s hostname using this command. Using the \u2018hostnamectl\u2019 command, you can also display the information about the currently installed Ubuntu version. So, you can easily check the Ubuntu version and Ubuntu Linux kernel version using this command:<\/p>\n The above command will only work on Ubuntu 16.04 or the latest Ubuntu versions.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t prefer the command line method, you can use an alternative way to check the Ubuntu version using GUI settings. It is a little bit time-consuming method, but if you are still working with GUI layout, you might prefer to use this method.<\/p>\n First, click on the \u2018Show Applications\u2019 icon. Now, locate the \u2018settings\u2019 window using the search bar. Click on the setting icon to proceed further as you can also see in the following screenshot:<\/p>\n Navigate into the \u2018About\u2019 tab from the system settings. Here, you will see the following details such as device name, OS name, OS type, and etc.<\/p>\n We learned in this tutorial how to check which Ubuntu version is running on your Linux system.\u00a0 You can check easily check the installed Ubuntu version using the command line or by using the gnome GUI.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is how to check the installed version of Ubuntu Linux Distribution. All steps and commands are executed on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish distribution.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxways.net\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n$ lsb_release -a\n<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\n\n$ lsb_release -d\n<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nCheck Ubuntu Version via \u2018\/etc\/os-release\u2019 File<\/h3>\n
\n$ cat \/etc\/os-release\n<\/pre>\n
![](\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/word-image-18400-3.png\")
<\/p>\nCheck Ubuntu Version via \u2018\/etc\/issue\u2019 File<\/h3>\n
\n$ cat \/etc\/issue\n<\/pre>\n
![](\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/word-image-18400-4.png\")
<\/p>\nCheck Ubuntu Version Utilizing the \u2018hostnamectl\u2019 Command<\/h3>\n
\n$ hostnamectl\n<\/pre>\n
![](\"http:\/\/linuxways.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/word-image-18400-5.png\")
<\/p>\nMethod 2: How to Check Ubuntu Version Using GUI (Graphical User Interface)?<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nConclusion<\/h2>\n