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SDB:Find openSUSE version

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Icon-checked.png This procedure was tested on openSUSE 12.1
This article describes steps to find which version of openSUSE are you running

[edit] The GUI way

Open /etc/SuSE-release in your favorite text editor.


[edit] The CLI way

Open a terminal, run

cat /etc/SuSE-release

Both ways should show something similar to:

openSUSE 11.2 (X86-64)
VERSION = 11.2
  • i586 means 32-bit version
  • x86-64 means 64-bit version