diff --git a/CMake/CMakeLists.txt b/CMake/CMakeLists.txt
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+project(test)
+
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
+include(mitkMacroGetLinuxDistribution.cmake) 
+GetLinuxDistribution()
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diff --git a/CMake/mitkMacroGetLinuxDistribution.cmake b/CMake/mitkMacroGetLinuxDistribution.cmake
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+macro(GetLinuxDistribution)
+
+if( UNIX )
+
+execute_process(COMMAND lsb_release -a OUTPUT_VARIABLE _out)
+message("********************")
+
+string(REPLACE "\\n" ";" _out ${_out})
+
+foreach(_i ${_out})
+    message("************")
+    message("${_i}")
+  if("${_i}" MATCHES "^[Rr][Ee][Ll][Ee][Aa][Ss][Ee].*")
+    message("1release: ${_i}")
+    string(REPLACE ":" ";" _i ${_i})
+    message("2release: ${_i}")
+    list(GET ${_i} -1 _i)
+    message("3release: ${_i}")
+    string(STRIP ${_i} _i)
+    message("4release: ${_i}")
+  endif()
+endforeach(_i)
+
+#string(REGEX REPLACE ".*Distributor ID:[^0-9a-zA-Z]*([0-9a-zA-Z]+).*" "\\1" dis_id "${test}")
+#message("dis_id: ${dis_id}")
+
+#string(REGEX REPLACE ".*Release:[ \\t]*(.*)\\n+.*" "\\1" release "${test}")
+# ([0-9]+.[0-9]+).*" "\\1" release "${test}")
+#message("release: ${release}")
+
+SET(LINUX_DISTRIBUTION ${dis_id})
+SET(LINUX_RELEASE ${release})
+
+endif()
+
+endmacro()
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