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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Is there a simple way to find out the last 5.15 kernel release for Ubuntu 22.04?
I made the "mistake" of connecting to Wifi and installing updates during my Ubuntu 22.04 install -- because a distribution upgrade to 22.04.1 horked the GUI login on my laptop -- and now I ...
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Which directories should I exclude in a backup if I want to return to an earlier version of Ubuntu
I am currently running Ubuntu Studio 22.10. I am going to replace my HDD with and SDD. At the same time, I want to return to Ubuntu Studio 22.04 LTS. I recognize that I may not be able to open some ...
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Headless Ubuntu 20.04 change default Kernel
I agree this question had been asked before. I have tried one of them and I lost the connection so to be sure I am asking again.
I have a headless server which I can connect to only with SSH. After ...
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Downgrade Kernel 5.19 to 5.15
I'm having issues with my GPU on my laptop after installing ubuntu 22.10 with the 5.19 kernel ("VM_L2_PROTECTION_FAULT_STATUS:0x00140051"). My Lapotp freezes after a while and I'm also not ...
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Downgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 20.04 [duplicate]
I was wondering if there is a way to downgrade the OS of a server from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) to Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa). I am setting up a local Galaxy (usegalaxy.org) server and ...
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Ubuntu downgrade on encrypted drive
On my laptop I have dualboot with win10. Win10 partition is encrypted with Bitlocker and Ubuntu partition is installed on encrypted LUKS partition (boot is not encrypted, home and other folders are in ...
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Install kernel 5.11.0 in Ubuntu 22.04
I am developing a software that use a driver that require Linux kernel 5.11.0 at most.
Currently I am using Ubuntu 22.04 with kernel 5.15.0-48.54-generic.
Can I install Linux kernel 5.11.0?
I have ...
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Downgraded Kernel in Ubuntu 20.04 to 5.4, ubuntu will not boot now
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/how-to-downgrade-the-kernel-on-ubuntu-20-04-to-the-5-4-lts-version/26459
^ Following that thread, I downgraded kernel to version 5.4, as something I was working on ...
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downgrade from kubuntu 22.04 to 20.04, keep packages and files
I want to go back to 20.04, keeping my packages and files. I just want to overwrite the system, basically just "roll back" to 20.04. I haven't been able to find a clear answer anywhere. ...
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Downgrade from kernel 5.15.0 to 5.8
What are the steps to downgrade an Ubuntu VM with OS 20.04 kernel 5.15 to Ubuntu OS 20.04 kernel 5.04?
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How to go back to Gimp2.6 (2022) [duplicate]
The method from four years ago no longer works:
$ sudo aptitude install gimp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gimp{b} gimp-data{a} libbabl-0.0-0{a} libgegl-0.0-0{ab} libgimp2.0{a} ...
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Ubuntu occasionally downgrades Tomcat to the version from apt repository
I'm using Tomcat 9 on Ubuntu 20.04.
The apt installs Tomcat 9.0.31 which has a HTTPS-related bug preventing our web application from working well.
To fix the issue, I am manually updating Tomcat to a ...
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Downgrade from 22.04 to 21.10
It seems that Qt 6.3 and some PHP plugins are not usable under Ubuntu 22.04.
Is there a way to downgrade to 21.10 (where I came from) ?
I searched in the Update manager but I found nothing about.
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Downgrading from buggy nvidia 470 to older 460 not possible (transitional package)
There have been some upgrades of kernel and/or NVIDIA packages on my laptop (Ubuntu 20.04, the normal upgrade popups that occur from time to time). After a reboot I now get a blank screen and this ...
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Downgrade ubuntu version [duplicate]
recently upgrade my ubuntu from 18 to 22 from focal fossa to jammy . And notice that my pgAdmin4 and PostgreSQL are not working. So I want to come back to a previous version. How can I do it?
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Disable HWE kernel support on Ubuntu Focal 20.04
I don't know how or why, but i have HWE installed. At least, apt claims there is an update for it:
# apt list --upgradable -a
Listing... Done
linux-headers-generic-hwe-20.04/focal-updates,focal-...
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cannot install winehq-stable due to broken packages on 20.04 upgraded from 18.04
I found this article
Unable to install wine32 due to broken packages
but this is not quite the end of the story for me.
After digging down the dependency trees it seems that the underlying cause were ...
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Downgrading/Partitioning Ubuntu
I'm a new Ubuntu user running Ubuntu 20.04 and have been liking it so far. I have reached a dilemma now. I would like to learn Game Development via Unity Hub, a game engine requiring Ubuntu 18.04 or ...
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After upgrading a package, the previous package version is lost, so I cannot downgrade back to it
After I upgraded a package, when I ran apt-cache policy <package-name>, I saw that the previous version of this same package is not there in the list.
Before the bind9-dnsutils package was ...
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Is it possible to downgrade kernel on Ubuntu 21.10 to something lower then 5.13x?
When I type apt-cache search linux-generic it gives me list of 5.13x only. Does it mean that I can't downgrade to something like 5.4? By the way on some linux distro I've seen a GUI utility to deal ...
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Downgrade php 8.0.10 to 8.0.0
Im tring to download Yii2 framework. The is error: require php >=5.6.0 <8.0 -> your php version (8.0.10) does not satisfy that requirement.
How can i downgrade version of php?
Thanks in ...
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How to downgrade package to the version form previous release of Ubuntu?
I've stuck with a specific issue in Mozc package on the latest Ubuntu 21.04, that is of 2.26.4220.100 version. So I figured out I can solve it by downgrading Mozc package to the 2.23.2815.102 version ...
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how to downgrade to previous version
I upgraded OS using following command
apt-get dist-upgrade
Which upgrade
to
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS"
from
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS"
Now I would like to go back ...
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How do I downgrade JDK?
I installed JDK with the Ubuntu Software application which selected JDK-16.0.2, and I need to downgrade to version 11.
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How to Downgrade Graphics Drivers on Ubuntu Mate 18.04
I have an old 32bit(i386) machine with those Intel Pentium P6100*2 CPU's and integrated HD graphics (it's of great sentimental value). It's internal display is fried so it's hooked to a TV monitor via ...
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How can I revert from using GTK 3 to GTK 2 on Kunbuntu 20.04?
I am using OpenCPN 5.2.4 with OpenGL (required for overlaying radar over charts) under Kubuntu 20.04. A tracked OpenCPN bug related to using GTK3 prevents OpenCPN from scaling the display ...
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How to downgrade Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (21.04) to Focal Fossa (20.04) LTS? [duplicate]
How to downgrade Ubuntu Hirsute Hippo (21.04) to Focal Fossa (20.04) LTS?
Or that's not actually an option?
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Downgrade Ubuntu 20.04 kernel from 5.4 to 3.2
Hi i need to downgrade Ubuntu kernel version to 3.2 because kernel 5.4 doesn't see my wifi driver package. I tried this command to see kernel images:
uname -r
But it only shows kernel versions that ...
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Downgrade cups / SAMSUNG printer error
With a recent cups update my ML-1640 printer has stopped working.
A fresh post from ARCHLINUX offers a fix by downgrading to 2.3.3op1-1 from my current cups:amd64/hirsute 2.3.3op2-3ubuntu3.
How can I ...
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Downgrade to tmux 2.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
So I'm trying to set up Cloud9 with a new ubuntu instance and it requires tmux 2.1 or earlier and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to downgrade from this new 3.0 version to tmux 2.1.
Any ...
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How to fix packages installed from debian sources? [closed]
For some reason that I can't explain (being dumb I guess), I have installed packages from Debian sources. I use Ubuntu 18.04.
I'd like to fix my mistakes and downgrade to Ubuntu packages. What I did ...
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How to get back to default LTS kernel releases after manual kernel upgrade?
I ran into a hardware issue that forced me to downgrade to a lower (5.4) kernel. But after some months the issue seems fixed and the latest kernels (5.10 at this moment). My problem now is that ...
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Are ubuntu 20.10 packages compatible with ubuntu 20.04 [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 20.10, since it is non LTS, I'd like to have 20.04.
Problem is I have already installed lots of apt packages in my 20.10. So is it possible to reuse the apt cache in my newly ...
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Migrating MySQL 5.7 data to Ubuntu 20.04 still using MySQL 5.7
I have an Ubuntu 16.04 server I want to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. That comes with MySQL 8, but I am not ready for that yet. I have found examples on how to remove MySQL 8 and install MySQL 5.7, and ...
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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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Kernel 5.8 crash on ubuntu 20.04 and ubuntu 20.10
I have had problems with the system after installing ubuntu 20.04 and 20.10, both freeze and do not let me operate, desktop, mouse ... frozen completely.
I have downgraded both systems to kernel 5.4 ...
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Incorrect new kernel version installed after apt-get upgrade, how do I downgrade it?
On January 10, 2021, I performed an apt-get upgrade, then rebooted. This broke all of my sound devices. After some research, it seems that the version of ubuntu I'm running (Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS) is ...
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Grub is not loading the default kernel
I'm running Ubuntu 20.0.41 LTS with Kernel 5.8.0-36-generic and 5.4.0-42-generic installed. For installing ROCm i need to set the default boot Kernel to 5.4 to remove 5.8. After setting it as well in ...
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Downgrade kernel by deleting new one from /boot?
I manually installed kernel 5.10.3, but now want to downgrade since I need NVIDIA's CUDA. If I delete the newer ones, will it boot from older ones - or not boot at all? (I have no physical access to ...
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20.04 how to downgrade kernel from 5.4.0-56-generic to 5.4.0-55.61
The 5.4.0-56 does not like AMD graphic driver. Based on https://www.amd.com/en/support/kb/release-notes/rn-amdgpu-unified-linux-20-45 I need to downgrade to 5.4.0-51 to install the graphic card's ...
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I have Ubuntu 20.10 with Gnome 3.38 but I want to return to Gnome 3.36
I want to return to Gnome 3.36 'cause Gnome 3.38 has given me some problems link to the problem.
Is it convenient to downgrade Gnome without downgrading Ubuntu, and how can I do it?
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How to downgrade Ubuntu 16.04.7 to 16.04.6
I'm having trouble installing Xilinx Vivado 2020.1 in Ubuntu 16.04.7. The supported versions by Xilinx are: Ubuntu 16.04.5, 16.04.6 and some other non-16.04 Ubuntu point releases as shown in the ...
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Can I use Timeshift to go back to a previous release of Ubuntu?
I recently attempted an upgrade from 16.04 to 18.04. During the process I got stuck whilst comparing 2 versions of a config file.
Foolishly I used ctrl+c and unknowingly aborted the upgrade. The ...
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how to install specific version of minetest?
I upgraded an older Ubuntu computer to 20.04. Everything went well. But now the kids are telling me they cannot connect to their favourite minetest servers. The game complains about
Protocol ...
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Is it possible to install an old GNOME 3 version on Ubuntu 20.04 or any other up-to-date distro?
This question may sound stupid, but I'm not to blame due to lack of experience with Linux.
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 for around 3 months and got really fed up with the mediocre flat GNOME 3.36 UI. ...
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How to netinstall to a specific minor release? i.e. 16.04.2
I have a client who wants 16.04.2. We've always netinstalled 16.04.whatever the lastest in canonical's mirrors is.
We keep a local mirror of Ubuntu, and normally netboot the kernel and initrd:
http://...
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Downgrading gcc-7 to 7.4.0
Is it possible/easy to downgrade the gcc version in Ubuntu 18.04 from 7.5.0 to 7.4.0?
The reason why I want that is because 7.5.0 introduced a new bug that is making my life more difficult than it ...
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Cannot downgrade nvidia-driver-440 to nvidia-driver-430 on Ubuntu 18.04
I am using Ubuntu 18.04.2 and I updated the nvidia driver to 440 using sudo apt install nvidia-driver-440.
Unfortunately, after this update, the performance that I obtain using the NVIDIA Optical ...
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Ubuntu 18.04, downgrading gcc from 8.4 to 8.3
I am in the position of using some slightly out of date build tools that refuse to work with gcc 8.4; the latest they recognize is gcc 8.3. I am using Ubuntu 18.04, and when I run apt list gcc-8 --all-...
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start Ubuntu 18.04 an error : end kernel panic -not syncing: attempted to kill init! exitcode=0x0000000b occurs by stack smashing detected
I downgraded my Ubuntu 18.10 to 18.04 today. After rebooting and logining the downgraded 18.04, I met an error as follows:
Then I ran the following commands in the terminal hoping to fix it.
sudo apt ...
