How to tell which version of Manjaro / Phosh is installed?

[kern707]

Use pacman in Manjaro (and any other Arch-based distros) with the -Qi flag to QUERY information for an INSTALLED package. Example for phosh below (not sure if that's the actual package name).

Code:

pacman -Qi phosh

Thanks @ThrillGates, My daily driver on my desktop / laptop is a Debian based distro, so i'd need to learn some new tricks 


I confirm that this command worked for me on my PinePhone that is running Manjaro, using the terminal,

The output included a detailed description showing that Phosh is indeed installed, and also the version and some other details about the package.

I also found out that I could use the same command that I am using on Debian based linux distros, and it shows me the distro name and release, the command is "lsb_release -a"

** So to sum up this thread with the solutions that worked for me:

1. Terminal command for finding out the Distro type and Release:

Code:

lsb_release -a

  - OR: Get the Distro name and kernel version -

Code:

uname -a

2. Terminal command for checking if Phosh is installed (thank you ThrillGates):

Code:

pacman -Qi phosh

(can be possibly be used to check if another phone shell is installed, just change the package name from "phosh" to the package name of your desired phone shell)

I hope it helps somebody