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[disabled_biscarri]

hello everybody,
I'm a new linux user, excuse me for such a trivial question...
I have installed ubuntu 10.04, from caelinux2010 distro
how to ask the system what kind of linux platform it is?
debian, mandriva, red hat,...?
I want to install an application and don't know which version to download?
thank you for your comments
lluis

[IanW]

Ubuntu is based on Debian.

[BillyBoa]

It's Debian derived.

[Elfy]

debian based

You might find that the app is already in the repositories

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingSoftware
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu

[the_blue_box]

Well if you've installed ubuntu 10.04 then the linux platform IS ubuntu 10.04

[snowpine]

What is the application?

[grahammechanical]

Yes, but what is caelinux based on? In fact what is caelinx?

http://caelinux.com/CMS/index.php?op...d=49&Itemid=40

It is based on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS! So, the package would be a deb. Oh, by the way, the 2011 version is out.

Regards.

[disabled_biscarri]

I appreciate all your comments

I want to install Salome 6.3.1 but I find 7 different versions to download at salome-platform.org, 3 of them for debian:

- debian Etch
- debian lenny
- debian squeeze

I want to know which command in a linux shell tells me which one is my ubuntu linux (which is version 10.04 and comes from caelinux 2010 distro)

or maybe I can find this info through the ubuntu GUI

[snowpine]

I haven't used Salome personally, as far as I know it is not offered by the official Ubuntu repositories.

A little further down their Download page I see this:

Universal binaries for Linux:

* Download a version for 32bit Linux (617Mb, md5sum)
* Download a version for 64bit Linux (622Mb, md5sum)

This runtime packages do not need any installation. Just extract the archive and execute runSalome script. This packaging includes Debian Etch (64bit / 32bit) layer, all the pre-requisites and SALOME 6.3.1 binaries. It is known to work on Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Suse, RHEL, etc ...

[disabled_biscarri]

thank you, snowpine, that helps

but, anyway, I still would like to know which kind of debian ubuntu I have in my computer