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by 8draco8 3413 days ago
sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade will do it for you. To check what version you are on simple do cat /etc/os-release
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Or, for a more cross-distro approach, `lsb_release -a`, although it requires the `lsb-release` package installed.
Truly cross distro is cat /etc/* release