From a14a861210c8a1374d0809f674ccf767088a41ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johannes Ranke <jranke@uni-bremen.de>
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 12:37:40 +0200
Subject: Check for lsb_release

It can be installed via the lsb-release package on Debian and
derivatives
---
 build | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/build b/build
index 4ecf40a..bc4806c 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ echo "Options:"
 echo " -s, --skip    Skip apt-get update/upgrade"
 }
 
+command -v lsb_release >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+  echo "Could not find lsb_release. Please install lsb-release"
+  exit 1
+}
 DIST=`lsb_release -cs`
 
 # URL of the local CRAN repo for checking for existing builds
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