Linux Release in IOS XR

[Daniel Smith]

I am curious if there is a command on the NCS5500 Platform that I can do to see what the Linux Release is? We will be upgrading code to a newer release and understand that we need to do an interim XR release to get the Linux Release changed. I'd like to confirm that after the interim step.

[Kasun Bandara]

hi @Daniel Smith you can use bash commands in IOS XR

[smilstea]

You can issue 'run uname -a' to get the information you are looking for as well as 'run cat /etc/os-release'.

Examples
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:8808-A#run uname -a
Mon May 5 15:53:09.694 UTC
Linux node0_RP0_CPU0 5.4.251-yocto-standard #1 SMP Mon Sep 16 18:45:16 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

RP/0/RP0/CPU0:8808-A#run cat /etc/os-release
Mon May 5 15:57:01.343 UTC
ID=lnt
NAME="Linux Distro for XR"
VERSION="11.1.2 (dunfell)"
VERSION_ID=11.1.2
PRETTY_NAME="Linux Distro for XR 11.1.2 (dunfell)"
DISTRO_CODENAME="dunfell"

Sam