Current version of the kernel / software of Mageia

[maluethy]

Hello,
where can I look up the current kernel version of Mageia? Is that under: https://advisories.mageia.org/
In this case, would the current version be kernel-5.5.15-3 of Mageia 7.1?

How can I view the current version of a software in Mageia?

Thanks in advance and greetings.
Luethy

[ictiosis]

Hello,
... would the current version be kernel-5.5.15-3 of Mageia 7.1?

Yes.

How can I view the current version of a software in Mageia?

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$ uname -a
Linux localhost 5.5.15-desktop-3.mga7 #1 SMP Sat Apr 4 19:06:09 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


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$ uname -rs
Linux 5.5.15-desktop-3.mga7


[maluethy]

I guess this is the procedure if you have Mageia installed on your computer (I don't have it yet.)

I have read the mentioned version according to the link above. In this case, the two statements match.

I have asked, because distrowatch has a different version. In this case the information there is not up to date (helpful to know).
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mageia

Thanks for the information.

[benmc]

hi maluethy,

How can I view the current version of a software in Mageia?

one way would be to look up a Mageia mirror and just use your browser page search function

eg, going here: http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/mage ... e/updates/
gives a list of .rpm packages and a page text search in Firefox returns:

broswer search.png (80.35 KiB) Viewed 1536 times

this returns all available versions (in this case 11) of the package.
as a user, you are free to choose any of the versions after your first boot, and also choose not to update the package by the package manager or updater app.

there are some caveats that apply.
You can add packages to or update your Live Desktop experience before install and any packages added will be installed into the system.
If you install via the net-installer medium, or the Classic install Medium, you have the option to install from the Updated Media repos. If you do, you will get the latest packages.

cheers

[isadora]

Or consulting Mageia App DB, Which shows for instance for Firefox:
http://madb.mageia.org/package/show/arc ... me/firefox

[maluethy]

Thank you very much for the answers and information. They help me a lot.