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From: nom...@gmail.com (yossarian)
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by: yossarian - Thu, 17 Feb 2022 07:45 UTC

Good day good people
Is there any tool to give me info how old is my Mint? Not by time but by version. What was first install?

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by: Andrei Z. - Thu, 17 Feb 2022 09:25 UTC

yossarian wrote:
> Good day good people
> Is there any tool to give me info how old is my Mint? Not by time but by version. What was first install?
>
$ sudo cat /var/log/installer/media-info

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by: yossarian - Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:00 UTC

On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:25:27 +0300
"Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> yossarian wrote:
> > Good day good people
> > Is there any tool to give me info how old is my Mint? Not by time but by version. What was first install?
> >
> $ sudo cat /var/log/installer/media-info
>
Nice
Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" - Release amd64 20190729

Now when you show me the path, i find file named `version` and inside is this sentence
ubiquity 18.04.1+linuxmint15
What does that mean?

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yossarian wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:25:27 +0300
> "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> yossarian wrote:
>> > Good day good people
>> > Is there any tool to give me info how old is my Mint? Not by time
>> > but by version. What was first install?
>> >
>> $ sudo cat /var/log/installer/media-info
>>
> Nice
> Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" - Release amd64 20190729
>
> Now when you show me the path, i find file named `version` and inside
> is this sentence ubiquity 18.04.1+linuxmint15
> What does that mean?
>
"ubiquiti" is the Mint Installer program (i.e. when you run "Install
Linux Mint"). Guess they haven't updated it in a while.

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by: Andrei Z. - Thu, 17 Feb 2022 11:48 UTC

yossarian wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2022 12:25:27 +0300
> "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>> yossarian wrote:
>>> Good day good people
>>> Is there any tool to give me info how old is my Mint? Not by time but by version. What was first install?
>>>
>> $ sudo cat /var/log/installer/media-info
>>
> Nice
> Linux Mint 19.2 "Tina" - Release amd64 20190729
>
> Now when you show me the path, i find file named `version` and inside is this sentence
> ubiquity 18.04.1+linuxmint15
> What does that mean?
>
Mint 20.3

$ apt show ubiquity
Package: ubiquity
Version: 20.04.15+linuxmint17
....
Description: Linux Mint live CD installer
....

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by: Jeff Layman - Thu, 17 Feb 2022 13:05 UTC

On 17/02/2022 09:25, Andrei Z. wrote:
> yossarian wrote:
>> Good day good people
>> Is there any tool to give me info how old is my Mint? Not by time but by version. What was first install?
>>
> $ sudo cat /var/log/installer/media-info

Thanks for that. When I tried it I got:
Linux Mint 19 "Tara" - Release amd64 20180717

However, on this laptop I have the following in a post made 14/02/2016:
"This afternoon I installed 17.2 Rafaela/Cinnamon/64 as I had it on a
DVD..."

I checked again and found from another post that I had installed 19 from
a live USB stick on 13/09/2018.

So, just for clarity, $ sudo cat /var/log/installer/media-info gave the
the release date of the latest version installed clean. If there was a
previous version, that info will no longer exist due to the clean
install, and it will also not give you the date of that clean install.
The date shown in Nemo against /media-info showed the date of installation.

Jeff

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Subject	Author
How old is my Mint	yossarian
Re: How old is my Mint	Andrei Z.
Re: How old is my Mint	yossarian
Re: How old is my Mint	Dan Purgert
Re: How old is my Mint	Andrei Z.
Re: How old is my Mint	Jeff Layman