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#1 Devuan Derivatives » Where is the release information stored? » Today 01:39:49

chabala
Replies: 1

I'm running Devuan-based PeppermintOS. Which version, you might ask; I've found it's difficult to tell.

I've noticed that all the places I'm used to looking to see my release information seem to be unpopulated:

neofetch: "OS: n/a x86_64"

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:    n/a
Description:    n/a
Release:    n/a
Codename:    n/a

$ ll /etc/os-release
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Jun 30  2024 /etc/os-release -> ../usr/lib/os-release

$ ll /usr/lib/os-release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Feb 20 08:42 /usr/lib/os-release

I know the whole point is not using systemd, but surely putting some release information in one of the well known locations would be good. Pretty sure the LSB spec isn't systemd specific.

Is there another distro-specific release information file I don't know about?

#2 Re: Documentation » Install Docker on Devuan » 2026-04-20 19:07:15

This was helpful. Some additions:

Current compose version is 5.1.3 (they decided to burn some major numbers to reduce confusion), so download link is:

sudo wget -c https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/v5.1.3/docker-compose-`uname -s`-`uname -m` -O /usr/local/bin/docker-compose; sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose

If you want

docker compose

to work, rather than just

docker-compose

one can make directories at

$HOME/.docker/cli-plugins

and then make a symlink to the docker-compose binary like

ln -s /usr/local/bin/docker-compose docker-compose

Then the following should work:

$ docker compose version
Docker Compose version v5.1.3

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