How To Install distro-info on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info on Fedora 36.
What is distro-info
Information about all releases of Debian and Ubuntu. The distro-info script will give you the codename for e.g. the latest stable release of your distribution. To get information about a specific distribution there are the debian-distro-info and the ubuntu-distro-info scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install distro-info on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install distro-info.
Install distro-info on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install distro-info using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install distro-info
Install distro-info on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install distro-info using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install distro-info
How To Uninstall distro-info on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the distro-info package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove distro-info
distro-info Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/debian-distro-info
/usr/bin/ubuntu-distro-info
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/23
/usr/lib/.build-id/23/0747b83c00330bffb79750d5fc82530339d9b8
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/d9/a5d3c4766bdce0ee346783eb95f83faeab3b82
/usr/share/distro-info
/usr/share/distro-info/shunit2-helper-functions.sh
/usr/share/distro-info/test-debian-distro-info
/usr/share/distro-info/test-ubuntu-distro-info
/usr/share/licenses/distro-info
/usr/share/licenses/distro-info/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/debian-distro-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/distro-info.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ubuntu-distro-info.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install distro-info on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).