distro-info-data software package provides information about the distributions releases (data files), you can install in your Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) by running the commands given below on the terminal,
$ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install distro-info-data
distro-info-data is installed in your system.
Make ensure the distro-info-data package were installed using the commands given below,
$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep distro-info-data *
You will get with distro-info-data package name, version, architecture and description in a table
| Distro | Ubuntu 12 04 lts precise pangolin |
| Section | Development |
| Package | distro-info-data |
| Version | 0.8ubuntu0.10 |
| Description | information about the distributions releases (data files) |
| Sub Section | devel |