This script takes advantage of built in commands and the Ubuntu file system and configuration files to gather together information about your Ubuntu system and generate the web page report. It does have one dependency so far, and that is you will need to install apt-show-versions to get all of the available output from this script.
To use the script download it to your computer first. It's in a tar.gz file so you will have to unzip it to a folder on your system. The SystemReport.sh file in the archive should already have the permissions set to execute. Just click or double click the .gz file and your archive manager will open so you can extract the script.
Now you will be able to run the script. It is best if you run this script in a user account which has sudo permission. You can run it in an account that does not have sudo permission but you won't get all of the output possible.
If you saved the SystemReport.sh file to your desktop, open Terminal and copy and paste the following command into it -
~/Desktop/SystemReport.sh
Hit enter and this will run the script, when it completes your web browser will open with the System Report web pages loaded.
Early versions of this script would load into the Firefox web browser by default, but I have learned how and implemented a change which now loads the System Report into your default browser on your system.
As I learn more about Linux and Ubuntu I will be updating this script and providing the latest version of it here at any link on this page to SystemReport.sh
Since I am releasing SystemReport.sh as open source you may change it to your liking as long as you keep my name in as author on the pages I have taught it to generate. If you add sections or whole pages to the output of SystemReport.sh please email me your changes or additions. Please do not send me the entire script to search through for your changes.
Here is a Sample System Report output set from my system that you can examine to see what the output of the SystemReport.sh file looks like.
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