{"id":180,"date":"2017-10-13T19:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T19:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2025-01-20T09:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T09:44:45","slug":"how-to-check-centos-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/how-to-check-centos-version\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Check CentOS Version"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re running CentOS you&#8217;ll feel the need to know the version you&#8217;re running, sooner than later. It might be that you installed CentOS very long ago and since then have upgraded many times, or maybe you&#8217;ve taken over the system from someone else and need to know the current version.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you&#8217;re a developer making sure that the software libraries you are downloading are compatible with your version of CentOS. Whatever the case, finding the right version of CentOS is super-easy.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming you&#8217;re on the command line, all you need to do is display the contents of the file \/etc\/issue:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>$ cat \/etc\/issue<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This will output something like this:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>CentOS release 6.4 (Final)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And there, quite plainly, is written the CentOS version number. In our case it was 6.4, while you might see a different number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re running CentOS you&#8217;ll feel the need to know the version you&#8217;re running, sooner than later. It might be that you installed CentOS very long ago and since then have upgraded many times, or maybe you&#8217;ve taken over the system from someone else and need to know the current version. Perhaps you&#8217;re a developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheapwindowsvps.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}