Downgrade make 4.1 to 3.82

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I am new to ubuntu.I have a 16.04 LTS ubuntu.I have make 4.1.I need to downgrade it to 3.81 or 3.82.I have tried a lot of solutions but none of them seem to work.

I have tried using the synaptic manager too but it doesnt show force version option.

you can try checking this question https://askubuntu.com/questions/49869/how-to-roll-back-ubuntu-to-a-previous-version — twister_void, May 16 '18 at 14:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 07 '19 at 12:37

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We can download make 3.81 (or 3.82, or any other) and install it.

Download a make version in the GNU FTP repository.
Extract the files from inside the tar archive to a folder.
Go to this folder and install like this (see also detailed how to install a .tar.gz file):
```
./configure
make
sudo make install
```

edited May 07 '19 at 12:37

Melebius

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answered Jul 05 '18 at 13:59

Copetti_Ubuntu

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I'm leaving this here as info: if you have build errors you might want to look at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51675200/install-older-version-of-gnu-make-in-ubuntu-18-04
I tried building it on ubuntu 22.04, which did not work so i built make on ubuntu 16.04 using linked answer and copied the binary. this gave segfault errors, so this patch was needed aswell: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1424919/gun-make-3-82-run-error-on-ubuntu-20-04-segmentation-fault-core-dumped – Flo Sep 15 '22 at 05:20

Downgrade make 4.1 to 3.82

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