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Using the terminal in Debian/Ubuntu, how does find the version of the system's TeX Live distribution? I don't have tlmgr so I would need to need to do this either through apt-get, aptitude, or some command that invokes the --version flag. Thanks.

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  • possible duplicate of [Get version of application - CLI only](http://askubuntu.com/questions/99292/get-version-of-application-cli-only) – Panther Feb 01 '12 at 03:53
  • See the above link, in your case "texlive" – Panther Feb 01 '12 at 03:56
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    @bodhi.zazen This question is *not* a duplicate because the OP is already aware of `--version` but does not know *what command* to append it to. texlive is not a command, so your suggestion does not work. – N.N. Feb 01 '12 at 22:03

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The command to show your texlive version is

tex --version
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    Any other main binary will also report TeX Live verison: `latex --version`, `pdflatex --version`, `xelatex --version`. – Adobe Dec 15 '14 at 10:16