For questions about how to revert to earlier versions of packages or Ubuntu.
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How to downgrade WINE?
Some Windows applications work better under an older version of WINE. From time to time it is even necessary to use a previous WINE version in order to get an application to start. However, the ...
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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 ...
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How to downgrade from Gnome Shell 3.6.1?
When I upgraded from 12.04 to 12.10, I didn't know it would upgrade my gnome shell version to 3.6.1. Now, all my extensions are useless. Is there any way to revert back to the previous version?
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How to downgrade VLC 2.0.1 to 1.1.x?
I haven't added any VLC PPA's and I have no clue how to solve this problem.
If it's not possible to downgrade VLC, Running VLC in a portable mode is sufficient for me. I need the older version only ...
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How to i load 11.10 back to my system?
I was using 11.10 for the last 1 year. and then i upgraded to ubuntu 12.04.1. but i have had many problem since. there was some problem with the graphic being loaded, and major problem with the ...
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How to upgrade back to xorg 1.13 after downgrade to 1.12 in ubuntu 12.10?
I had to downgrade Xorg from 1.13 to 1.12 in order to use the fglrx-legacy but it (fglrx-legacy) didn't work for me neither fglrx. So, is it possible to upgrade Xorg back to 1.13? and how?
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Downgrading a package and dependencies
I want to downgrade libcairo2 to the version from Precise (I'm running Quantal). I've added the precise source to my sources.list and can do 'apt-get install libcairo2=', but it's going to remove some ...
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Is it safe to downgrade X?
I have an old graphics-card which needs the nvidia-96 drivers. But the drivers need xorg-video-abi-10 to be installed, and my version of Ubuntu (Precise) has (i think) an newer version, because that ...
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How to use a driver for Ubuntu with a higher kernel version(2.6.36) on ubuntu with lower kernel version (2.6.30))
I want to use EASYCAP on my Ubuntu(kernel version 2.6.30).
The problem is that ,the drivers for EASYCAP are included in kernel version 2.6.36 and higher.
I have extracted all the files corresponding ...
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How can I downgrade a PPA package to the official version?
I have ppa:cr3/ppa in my sources list. It upgrades my checkbox, checkbox-gtk, and checkbox-qt packages to version 0.14~ppa6.12.04. And now I have problems with updating my system, and sometimes ...
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How to downgrade gcc to version 4.1.1 if I use Ubuntu 11.10 or 12.04 64-bit?
It may seems simlar to this question:
Old version of gcc for new Ubuntu
but I can't solve it with the method provided in that thread
I get some error like
gcc-4.1 : Depends: cpp-4.1 (= ...
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reinstall previous version on dual boot system
So, I tried to upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04 on a dual boot system but Ubuntu will not load. I then tried to boot from a USB stick with "start-up disc creator" and a 12.04 iso image(BIOS set to boot ...
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Is this considered a minor kernel update from 3.2.0-24.38 to 3.2.0-35.40?
I am thinking of installing Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS, 64 bit, English. It comes with a kernel version 3.2.0-35.40
One of my programs only support kernel version 3.2.0-24-generic. On ...
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Ubuntu 11.10: Downgrade GCC-4.6 into GCC-4.1.2
I would like to build GCC-4.1.2 in Ubuntu 11.10 32bit (currently works well with GCC-4.6).
The "make" stage shows error relating to header files:
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/usr/include/features.h:323:26: error: ...
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How to downgrade Xorg-server package to Ubuntu 11.10 version in 12.04
After upgrade from 11.10 to 12.04(LTS) x64 on my HP 6550 laptop, I'm I faced with graphical bug in xorg-server-intel.
I've tried to install lower version but system said me that certain version not ...
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Downgraded Nautilus to 3.4, Wallpaper in Greeter won't update
I did some research and it says the /var/lib/AccountsService/user/ is updated by Nautilus instead of gnome-settings. I recently downgraded to Nautilus 3.4 instead of 3.6, and it is no longer doing ...
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how to downgrade kernel image using usb stick (live usb)?
is there a way to downgrade kernel on main ubuntu OS using live USB? thanx
i read this: How to downgrade the Kernel on 11.10 , but it seems i need to have access to the OS, while in my case i cannot ...
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Is it safe to downgrade libgl1-mesa-glx?
I am trying to install qt-sdk but get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
qt-sdk : Depends: libqt4-opengl-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to ...
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programs - Downgrading
I have Blender 2.62 installed, and I have come across a brain-damage bug (Don't worry folks, it's been reported) and I want to downgrade to a previous version. How would I would I go about doing this?
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