For questions about how to revert to an earlier version of a package or an earlier versions of Ubuntu.
Questions tagged [downgrade]
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How to downgrade a package via apt-get?
How can I downgrade a package to an older version via apt-get?
Other tools are also acceptable but apt-get is preferred.
user61928
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How can I downgrade from PHP 7 to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04?
I am trying to revert my PHP version to 5.6 from 7 and though I removed PHP 7 and then installed PHP 5.6 I still seem to be running version 7.
Is there a simple method for moving through PHP versions where apache, phpMyAdmin and co are configured…
dibs
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How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version?
I just installed a new version of Ubuntu and I want to roll it back to the previous version.
How can I do that? Is that even possible?
Mokus
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How do I downgrade Firefox v. 57 to v. 56?
What is the most straight forward way to downgrade Firefox 57 to Firefox 56?
This is to have more time to wait for working replacements for legacy extensions.
Jani Saarenpää
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Downgrading Java 11 to java 8?
How can i downgrade the java version 11 to java 8. As i need jenkins, current jenkins versoin doesn't support java 11. I need to downgrade.
Rajesh Ganessan
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How to install previous Firefox version?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I use the Perapera Chinese add-on for Firefox. It worked up to version 39, but now in version 40 it just stopped working. So I tried to downgrade to version 39 following this link, where there are two options:
1) Choose…
Rodrigo
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How do I downgrade to Subversion 1.6?
I'm trying to downgrade subversion to 1.6 from 1.7, doing sudo apt-get install subversion=1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3. This does not seem to work.
Any idea on how to do this without breaking half the installation?
LFAY
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How to downgrade from PHP 5.4 to 5.3
Recently I upgraded PHP to 5.4, but it seems to be failing on me because APC isn't working with it, however this gave me no choice but to downgrade to 5.3, how can I do this?
I executed apt-get remove php5 and apt-get purge php5 then I removed the…
MacMac
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downgrade ppa packages to versions available at a previous point in time
The backstory is that the normal Intel GPU drivers don't do the various OpenGL extensions that my hobby coding and some games want. So I have to install xorg-edgers and then its happy. However, last Wednesday or so there was an update to…
Will
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How to downgrade Firefox from 30 to 28?
I've accidentally sudo apt-get upgrade (while c/p-ing instructions to do something and failing to notice that it isn't sudo apt-get update) and it upgraded Firefox from 28 to 30. Now my menus are completely messed up, so I want FF28 back and I'm not…
Danijel
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How can I downgrade packages without removing their dependants?
I have a number of mesa packages that I had upgraded to a PPA version, before purging the PPA so I could upgrade my system. The differences in the versions are minor (they are technically the same, just one set of libraries were from git and the…
RolandiXor
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what is the right way to downgrade kernel
I decide to downgrade kernel version due to unsolvable problem with wifi. Ubuntu version is 12.10, kernel version is 3.5.
In http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/kernel/ I found the previous kernel version 3.2. I decided to install…
user10756
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How do I downgrade Gedit to a previous (3.10.4) Version in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
As the title already says: I have some plug-ins which don't run with gedit 3.18.3 which is shipped with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
How can I downgrade to the version 3.10.4 which was used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.10 and get all the plug-ins…
Videonauth
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I need downgrade from Subversion 1.8 to subversion 1.7
I've upgraded system from 13.10 to 14.04 LTS
Now I need downgrade from Subversion 1.8 to Subversion 1.7,
because formats 1.7 vs 1.8 are different and I can not access to svn repo of my team.
I've failed to compile svn from sources: a lot of…
user273083
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How to downgrade packages on Ubuntu?
Update Manager keeps packages at the latest version, but occasionally a new package version may not work as expected or properly. How to downgrade an installed package and lock it at a specific version to prevent it from being updated? How can I do…
Radu Rădeanu
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