Identifying OS fully

[PlanB]

I've got a version of Jessie lite that responds to cat /etc/os-release with
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"

Trouble is it wouldn't let me apt-get install libopencv-dev or libusb-1.0-0-dev until I overhauled it with
apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Thing is the overhauled version still identifies the same as before. Is there some other cmd to pin down different variants of the OS? I'm troubled that sd cards with different behaviours can't be labeled in some way.

[ghans]

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cat /boot/issue.txt
lsb_release -a

[PlanB]

Same result for both

[ghans]

Please post the full output of all three commands mentioned in this thread.

ghans

[PlanB]

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# cat /boot/issue.txt
Raspberry Pi reference 2016-05-27
Generated using pi-gen, https://github.com/RPi-Distro/pi-gen, 5add7283d4db4eaad785de41a6750e909e5a04cf, stage2

root@raspberrypi:/home/pi# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Raspbian
Description: Raspbian GNU/Linux 8.0 (jessie)
Release: 8.0
Codename: jessie

[topguy]

Trouble is it wouldn't let me apt-get install libopencv-dev or libusb-1.0-0-dev until I overhauled it with
apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get -f install && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Thing is the overhauled version still identifies the same as before.

If you needed to run those commands it was most likely because of other "apt-get" commands from earlier that had not completed properly.

Also starting with "apt-get update" is a good idea. But none of these commands will change the observed OS version, you have just upgraded a few components of that OS. So the word "overhauling" has no meaning in this context.