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kenneth koontz
Asked: 2012-11-27 10:42:09 +0800 CST

install previous package version

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I recently updated to firefox 17 during a system upgrade.

$ sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade.

How do I revert back to a previous package version? I'd like to get back to firefox 16.0.2.

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  1. Best Answer

    Well , I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 and I remove firefox 17 to install firefox 16.0.2.
    You can try this:

    1. Open a terminal and type: cd /var/cache/apt/archives
    2. Search for the Firefox's 16 deb packages eg: ls -l | grep 'firefox' | grep '16.0.02'
    3. In my case I have 4 deb package for firefox 16

    enter image description here 4. Now, I removed firefox 17 with: sudo apt-get remove firefox

    enter image description here 5. Finally I installed the firefox 16 packages with: 

    sudo dpkg -i `ls -l | grep 'firefox' | grep '16.0.2' | awk '{print $9}' | xargs`

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    Or once you have the list with the firefox 16 deb packages , you can install each .deb package with sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb

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    Hope this will helpful.

    Regards.

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