Suse Support Package Version

[Jeff Ohlhausen]

Hi,
I'm running SuSE 8. Does anyone know how to determine the SP (support pack/service pack) level it is on?
Thanks
Jeff

[Oskar Teran]

have you tried looking on their portal?
http://portal.suse.com

I had to do that once but I can't recall the command! But I do know I found that info at their portal.


Oskar

[Michael Williams_6 · Accepted solution]

The version of SLES can be determined by catting the contents of /etc/SLES-release.

On both a patched an unpatched system here, it reads:
SuSE SLES-8 (i386)
VERSION = 8.1

To find out the Service Pack level, cat /etc/UnitedLinux-release. An unpatched systems reads:

UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586)
VERSION = 1.0

A system with all the patches applied and SP3 installed reads:

UnitedLinux 1.0 (i586)
VERSION = 1.0
PATCHLEVEL = 3

I hope this helps!