Is it possible to know which recognized flavor I am running using terminal?

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I have a set of functions in bash script which I want to run only on particular flavors of Ubuntu. For example, I want to run the following if I am running Unity:

gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.datetime show-week-numbers true

but the following if I am running Ubuntu GNOME:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.calendar show-weekdate true

and similarly, different commands for different flavors of Ubuntu.

I have tried to see the contents of /etc/os-release, but it doesn’t give any information about the flavor of Ubuntu. The following is when run on Ubuntu GNOME:

$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

Is it possible to know which recognized flavor I am running using terminal? I would prefer a solution which works out of the box, without installing any other packages for both live and installed environments. Looking for what packages are installed is a possibility, but I would prefer not to go that route, although you are welcome to give an answer in that direction.

Answer

This is the command that I use. It works for me all the time:

cat /var/log/installer/media-info

Output (my system) Correctly tells that I am running Kubuntu

Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326.2)

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Source : Link , Question Author : Aditya , Answer Author : cshubhamrao

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