Questions tagged [downgrade]
For questions about how to revert to an earlier version of a package or an earlier versions of Ubuntu.
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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?
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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.
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How can I downgrade from PHP 7 to PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 16.04? [duplicate]
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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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Cannot downgrade wpa_supplicant to fix Wi-Fi connection to a corporate network (WPA2/PEAP with no CA certificate) in Ubuntu 18.04
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04 (clean install, full wipe). Now I can no longer connect to the corporate network at my office (perhaps related to these bugs: bug 1, bug 2). What ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How do I use aptitude to downgrade/force version of a package?
I've decided that I like aptitude better than all the alternatives I've tried. But I can't figure out how to downgrade/force version of a package with it. I have to go back and use synaptic for that.
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How do I downgrade libglib2? (from glib 2.31 to 2.30?)
EDIT: NEW FORMULATION OF THE QUESTION
I have the wrong version of libglib2 installed. I had some experimental repo that broke everything. From this source,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/...
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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 ...
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how do I downgrade google chrome?
Presumably after an update, google chrome has very serious problems with page rendering. I want to downgrade it. (Switching to vmlinuz.old and initrd.img.old did not help).
$ apt-cache policy google-...
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How do I downgrade a package?
I just upgraded to Firefox 5 to find out that Selenium does not work on it. I'd like to downgrade to Firefox 4 but haven't found a way to do this.
How do you downgrade to Firefox 4 on 11.04?
Thanks ...
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How to downgrade PHP from 5.5.9 to 5.4 in Ubuntu 14.04 (Installed with LAMP)
I need to downgrade my PHP version from 5.5.9 to 5.4 (using Ubuntu 14.04), because I have a code that's using mySQL (which is deprecated in 5.5.9), and I cannot change that code. Is there a way to do ...
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Downgrade to kernel 5.4.0 because kernel 5.8.45 doesn't like my bluetooth controller
I had no bluetooth issues with kernel 5.4.XX until I updated to kernel 5.8.0.
I can't select 5.4.XX from Grub, is not there.
If I type dpkg --list | grep linux-image | grep ^ii on the terminal that's ...
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How to reverse '-proposed' channel package upgrade?
I have an Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 with GNOME 3.18 64-bit VM, and in that VM I needed to test something in the xenial-proposed channel so I activated it in the software-properties-gtk, ran sudo apt-get ...
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bash: /usr/bin/locale-check: No such file or directory error after i downgraded from ubuntu 18.10 to 18.04
After downgrading my Ubuntu from 18.10 to 18.04 when ever trying to login I am getting the following error:
And opening the terminal following error displays
bash: /usr/bin/locale-check: No such ...
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How to downgrade from 64-bit to 32-bit
I have a 2gb chromebook with 64-bit ubuntu 12.04 and it runs extremly slow and often crashes so how to I downgrade it to 32-bit or is their another solution?
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How to downgrade PHP from 5.3.x to 5.2.x
I need to downgrade my PHP to 5.2.x from 5.3.x Certain software I currently use requires it.
I found all these link explaining how to do it but they no longer work because they show you how to use ...
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How to downgrade Kernel
It seems that I have been affected by power regression bug. I am using Ubuntu 11.10. I want to know is there any harm in downgrading to a kernel that does not have this bug. How to downgrade the ...
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How to roll-back or downgrade kernel on 14.04 (re: Wine stopped working)?
With a recent update (I'm on 14.04 LTS), Wine suddenly stopped working. It turns out this has already been reported at WineHQ where the related bug reports are linked.
The advice there is to ...
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How can I remove new kernel versions after downgrading?
I upgraded Ubuntu to 12.04, all packages. But after that I encountered a lot of problems so I decided to downgrade to 11.10.
After I did that I found I now have two kernels: 3.2.x and 3.0.x.
I found ...
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How do I export banshee library settings to another machine?
I am trying to downgrade my distro. The thing is, I have spent some few hours organising my music library and I do not want to lose my database. I have checked 'write meta data to files'. And so, my ...
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Downgrade xorg-server
According to this bug report, intel-virtual-output encounter some difficulties with xorg-server version 1.17.1:
david@david-ubuntu:~$ intel-virtual-output
XIO: fatal IO error 11 (Resource ...
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How to downgrade Broadcom wireless drivers bcmwl-kernel-source?
After a fresh install of Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit, my wifi is now misbehaving. It seems to lose Internet connectivity from time to time, so this results in, for example, the web browser stops loading sites ...
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Downgrading Java 11 to java 8? [duplicate]
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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to downgrade a package using dpkg
I want to downgrade some packages. I search and find How to downgrade packages on Ubuntu? and this Need to downgrade a package with many dependents and this How to Downgrade a Package via apt-get?.
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How to install keryx?
How to install keryx in ubuntu 12.04? knowing that keryx1.0 needs python <2.7 and ubuntu 12.04 has python2.7.3 so what could i do either to downgrade python or installing keryx bas some way.
Also ...
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How do I remove Kernel 3.1 that I added via a PPA?
Is there a way to remove kernel 3.1 from Oneiric?
I downloaded and upgraded to 3.1 with these instructions:
Open the terminal and run these two commands for both 32-bit and
64-bit versions of ...
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Downgrade PHP to PHP5.2?
I want to install PHP 5.2 in Ubuntu 11.04 , I had some script that did that thing good but only on Ubuntu 9, anyone has a script / instructions how to do it?
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How to install old AMD Catalyst 12.4 drivers on Ubuntu 12.10?
I have an ATi Radeon HD 3650 AGP, which does not support 12.8 and 12.9 drivers. The latest supported version is 12.4, but Catalyst 12.4 does not support Ubuntu 12.10. How can I downgrade to 12.4 or 12....
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How to go from 11.04 to 10.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to roll back Ubuntu to a previous version?
Ok, so I was running fine on 10.04 then I thought "why not upgrade to 11.04"
So I did and a some bad stuff happened. Once I ...
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Need to downgrade a package with many dependents
In order to get a working low-power video card setup I decided to use a custom xserver from Andrikos:ppa. It worked well, but when the official release caught up to the bug fixes I dried to drop the ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 apt-get doesn't provide conky-all from Ubuntu 14.04
When upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 my Conky scripts were automatically converted from Conky 1.9 format to new Conky 1.10 format but they were broken and won't run under Conky 1.10. So I ...
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Disable HWE and continue with GA kernal of 16.04?
My Laptop is very old and doesn't need support for new hardware. Updating to new kernel releases has made me 2nd monitor not to work. How can I opt out of HWE and stay with 5years supported kernel? I ...
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How do I downgrade nvidia drivers in 12.04?
I am experiencing a problem described in this topic, which I now suspect is due to a bug in the 295.40 version of the nvidia drivers. Are there any builds available for Ubuntu 12.04 precise based on ...
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use dd Cloning Tool and Ubuntu installed on usb for upgrade or downgrade Ubuntu
I upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04, made some wrong selections while upgrading, Can I use Ubuntu installed on usb stick (dd The Native Linux Cloning Tool) to upgrade or downgrade Ubuntu ?
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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, ...
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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 ...
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Downgrade PHP Version from 5.5 to 5.4 on Ubuntu 14.04 [duplicate]
First time I've ever needed to ask a question here that I don't think has already been answered.
I've recently been working on transferring over a vBulletin site I run to a new server. Thinking that ...
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Render LaTeX is not working in Inkscape after installing to 18.04
I have recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 (Not upgrade, a clean install). In Ubuntu 18.04, the rendering LaTeX function in Inkscape is not working. Following is the error output:
*** WARNING - the ...
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Error while purging PPA from Unity 5.0 testing repository [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reinstall Unity?
I installed Unity 5.0 to test it but I am having many problems with it, for example, the lenses don't work. But when I tried to downgrade, it didn't ...
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How to downgrade from LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6?
How to "properly" downgrade LibreOffice versions deals with a downgrade from 3.5 to 3.4.*. Is there any way to nicely downgrade LibreOffice 4.0 to 3.6? The latter is not in the package lists....
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How to re-install GIMP 2.6 after trying GIMP 2.8?
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I tried GIMP 2.8, but felt more comfortable with 2.6. I removed the PPA's from Ubuntu Software Centre, removed and purged GIMP, and even rm the .gimp-2.8 folder. But when I go to install GIMP ...
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How do I downgrade kernel on 12.10?
I did a fresh installation of Ubuntun 12.10 (kernel v3.5.0.21-generic, 64 bit, US English) on my computer after downloading the ISO from Ubuntu.com.
In order for one of my installed programs to work, ...
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How to install an older version of Java
I updated my installation of the sun-java6-jdk package today to version 6.24-1build0.10.10.1 after being prompted by the update manager. However this now causes some compilation failures so I'd like ...
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How to downgrade to a specific PPA version of LibreOffice?
Since 2012 I have been using LibreOffice provided by this PPA. But yesterday, I made an upgrade which contains a bug that messes with all my Sheets.
While I wait for a fix, I want to downgrade from ...