---
name: "distro-info"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "distro-info"
version: "1.20-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/distro-info"
---

# distro-info(1)

provides information about the distributions' releases

## NAME

distro-info - provides information about the distributions' releases

## SYNOPSIS

**distro-info** \[*OPTIONS*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**distro-info** is a symlink to the distro-info command for your distribution. On Debian it links to **debian-distro-info** and on Ubuntu it links to **ubuntu-distro-info**. All options described in this manual page are available in all **distro-info** commands. All other options, which are not described here, are distribution specific.

## OPTIONS

- **--date**=*DATE*

  *date for calculating the version (default: epoch taken from SOURCE\_DATE\_EPOCH* *environment variable if set, otherwise today)*

- **-h**, **--help**

  display help message and exit

- **-a**, **--all**

  list all known versions

- **-y**\[*MILESTONE*\], **--days**\[=*MILESTONE*\]

  display number of days until specified version reaches the specified milestone. *MILESTONE* may be one of *created*,  *release*,  *eol*, or  *eol-server*. If no milestone is specified, assume *release*. For options that return a list, display the normal output followed by whitespace and the number of days until the specified milestone.

- **-d**, **--devel**

  latest development version

- **--series**=*SERIES*

  *series to calculate the version for*

- **-s**, **--stable**

  latest stable version

- **--supported**

  list of all supported versions, including development releases

- **--unsupported**

  list of all unsupported stable versions

- **-c**, **--codename**

  print the codename (default)

- **-r**, **--release**

  print the release version

- **-f**, **--fullname**

  print the full name

## SEE ALSO

[**debian-distro-info**(1)](/debian-distro-info/1.md), [**ubuntu-distro-info**(1)](/ubuntu-distro-info/1.md)

## AUTHOR

The script and this manual page was written by Benjamin Drung \<bdrung@debian.org\>.