How Do I Check My Version of Gnome-Shell?
There's Got to Be Some Simple Way I'm Missing, but for the Life of Me I Can't Find It. How Do I Check My Version of Gnome-Shell? 2 Answers Just Type...
There's got to be some simple way I'm missing, but for the life of me I can't find it. How do I check my version of GNOME-Shell?
2 Answers
Just type
gnome-shell --version
into a terminal.
The gnome-shell man page doesn't show --version as an option. Assuming you have installed it from the ubuntu repositories then you can look up the version in the repository. To just show the version:
apt-cache show gnome-shell | grep Version
On Ubuntu Maverick (10.10) I get
Version: 2.31.5-2ubuntu2
Note that this works whether or not the package is installed. You can also look up all packaged versions of gnome-shell on all ubuntu versions on
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