How can I roll back my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 16.04?

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I accidentally upgraded Ubuntu from 16.04 to 18.04. Now I can't log in to the system. But through the PE system, I can see that the previous file is still on the hard disk. Is there any way to get 18.04 back to 16.04? Or if I want to reinstall the system which paths should I save from the disk?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '18 at 13:15

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There is no 'roll back' since there is no Windows Product Key to preserve. There is only reinstall.

Save your data, wherever you stored it. Reinstall the rest.

answered Dec 05 '18 at 13:15

user535733

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 05 '18 at 14:58

Love this question!

Just reinstall and get good at it! (That is how many Ubuntu superusers know so much.) But here is an easy way to back up your stuff in the folder when you do, for times like this...

While installing from the liveboot USB, mount your original hard disk where yout home (or Ubuntu) is, right click, "open the terminal", and do something like:

sudo mv /home/YOURUSER /home/myoldhome

Then after the install, your files will still be there.

Already reinstalled the system , thank you for your answer. – 唐景麒 Dec 26 '18 at 05:38 — 唐景麒, Dec 26 '18 at 05:38

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 05 '18 at 16:19

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Although you cannot restore directly to 16.04 from within 18.04, you can install 16.04 in a separate partition and then add it to Grub as an extra boot option, like so.

answered Dec 05 '18 at 16:19

Paul Benson

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How can I roll back my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 16.04?

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