How to determine in a shell script whether the distribution I am on is Debian-based?
71677
Does Linux Mint have /etc/debian_version?
85261
How do I find out which paths my (La)TeX installation checks looking for packages (on a Linux system)?
20082
Does the shebang determine the shell which runs the script?
65962
How to compare a program's version in a shell script?
86921
How do I check if a package is installed on my server?
65188
Command line option to check which filesystem I am using?
136645
Do popular linux distributions verify binary packages?
51957
What does "${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}" do in my terminal prompt?
101610
How do I find out the kernel version I am running?
22506
Is there a way to find out whether an updated program/package lands in the official Ubuntu release repositories?
111773
How to check OS and version using a Linux command
79238
How to determine whether a given Linux is 32 bit or 64 bit?
86627
Find where python is installed (if it isn't default dir)
12393
How do I replicate installed package selections from one Debian system to another? (Debian Wheezy)
123153
How to tell if a certain package exists in the apt repos?
116869
Is it possible to know from apt if the package was installed explicitly or as a dependency of another package?
77976
How do I know if I am running 32 or 64-bit Linux?