uname too vague?

neurorad · February 11, 2011, 12:50pm

Hi all,

I am ssh'ed into a cluster and want to install a package. However, I don't know which type to chose (CentOS, Fedora, OpenSuSE are some of the options).

I ran called uname with various arguments but none are specific...

$ uname -n
resolute.research...
$ uname -i
x86_64
$ uname -s
Linux

*I guess for the time being I can download an compiled version and compile it myself, however it would still be handy to know the correct command...

methyl · February 11, 2011, 1:12pm

uname -a

neurorad · February 11, 2011, 1:18pm

Thanks methyl.

That gave me

Linux resolute.research... el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 21 10:41:14 EST 2009 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

So GNU/Linux then, it shouldn't matter which I chose?:

CentOS4
FC4
FC5
OpenSuSE
CentOS5
Fedora 6 through 10
?

cjcox · February 11, 2011, 4:33pm

Fairly portable:

cat /etc/*elease

fpmurphy · February 12, 2011, 8:42am

Probably Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 - which is a rebadge of RHEL

bobwilson · February 16, 2011, 3:17pm

You could try (has worked on a handful of linux machines I've used)

cat /etc/release

or

cat /proc/version

neurorad · February 16, 2011, 3:32pm

thank you all, those tips have done the trick!