GetUbuntuVersion is a version code snippets to obtain the version of the current Ubuntu distibution.


#include <cstdlib>

#include <fstream>

#include <string>

#include <vector>

#include <boost/foreach.hpp>



///GetUbuntuVersion returns the version number of the Ubuntu distribution currently installed.

///From http://www.richelbilderbeek.nl/CppGetUbuntuVersion.htm

const std::string GetUbuntuVersion()

{

  //Save info to tmp.txt

  {

    std::system("cat /etc/*-release > tmp.txt");

  }

  //Read info to std::vector

  std::vector<std::string> v;

  {

    std::ifstream f("tmp.txt");

    std::string s;

    for (int i=0; !f.eof(); ++i)

    {

      std::getline(f,s);

      v.push_back(s);

    }

  }

  //Analyze std::vector

  BOOST_FOREACH(const std::string& s,v)

  {

    if (s.size() > 15

      && s.substr(0,15)=="DISTRIB_RELEASE")

    {

      const int i = s.find_last_of("=");

      return s.substr(i+1,s.size()-(i+1));

    }

  }

  return "";

}

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