[PLUG] xubuntu version ?

[Ben Koenig]

In general referring to an xubuntu release using the cooresponding ubuntu
release is fine. In your case it's 18.04, that's all

But you can dig deeper if you want to. Xubuntu creates their own "xubuntu"
meta packages. These packages serve a dual-role of both pulling in Xfce
packages and defining the Xubuntu "brand".

- Looking at the Xfce packages will give you the version of xfce
- Looking at the Xubuntu packages will give you the version of xubuntu.

So try searching for Xubuntu instead.

There is a hidden version number if you want to dive into the repo. Use
apt-cache to search for the xubuntu-desktop package. This is one of the
highest level Xubuntu packages and will trigger installation of everything
from xubuntu-wallapapers to xubunt-default-settings.
$ apt-cache search xubuntu-desktop

There's also "apt-get info" if you want a brief description of a given
package... but don't quote me on that. It's easier just to look it up on
packages.ubuntu.com
https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/xubuntu-desktop

I'm not sure what their methodology is for the version number of
xubuntu-desktop, but it does have its own version and is the best answer
you are going to get short of asking the dev team directly. In general
referring to an Xfce release with the cooresponding

On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 5:37 PM John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 8 Jul 2019 17:21:11 -0700
> Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> dijo:
>
> >So it never says xubuntu, but I now understand that xubuntu is Ubuntu
> >with a different collection of stuff, like xfce.
>
> There are probably more elegant ways to figure out which desktop
> environment you are using, but I would try Synaptic package manager.
> Once it is running do a search on 'xfce.' That will pop up lots of
> packages and you can tell by looking at them if they are installed.
>
> If some of the main xfce packages are installed, then you have xfce
> installed. Unfortunately, this doesn't prove that you are actually
> using it, because you can have more than one desktop environment
> installed. But if you installed more than one you did so deliberately,
> so you would remember.
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