How to downgrade subversion 1.8 to 1.6 in ubuntu 14.04?

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The currently installed svn version is 1.8.8 and I want to downgrade it to svn 1.6. Can you please guide me how to do this?

Thanks

A.B. · Answer 1 · 2015-10-06T12:52:32.227

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No changes in a list file
Preventing upgrades
Simple reversible

You have to download three deb files.

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/subversion/libsvn1_1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3.5_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3.5_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/d/db4.8/libdb4.8_4.8.30-11ubuntu1_amd64.deb

Install via

sudo dpkg -i libdb4.8_4.8.30-11ubuntu1_amd64.deb\
 subversion_1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3.5_amd64.deb\
 libsvn1_1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3.5_amd64.deb

and prevent the upgrade

sudo apt-mark hold libdb4.8
sudo apt-mark hold subversion
sudo apt-mark hold libsvn1

If you want to do that later reversed.

sudo apt-mark unhold libdb4.8
sudo apt-mark unhold subversion
sudo apt-mark unhold libsvn1
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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extract bin/* x86_64-linux-gnu/* from those *.deb. run by LD_LIBRARY_PATH=x86_64-linux-gnu bin/svn. then svn16 svn18 can coexist. — yurenchen, Jan 06 '18 at 08:25

How to downgrade subversion 1.8 to 1.6 in ubuntu 14.04?

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