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Dusenberg
February 11th, 2009, 09:56 AM
I recently installed Intrepid 8.10 on my laptop and everything is fine except Kompozer which has a critical bug that means I can't use it to create / update web pages. The version of Kompozer on Gutsy worked and I need to get back to that now as I have a batch of page changes to do ASAP. How do I install an old version of Kompozer as synaptics only shows the latest version?? I've looked on sourceforge and there is an earlier version but its a .gz file and I don't know what to do with it. Any help please?

Partyboi2
February 11th, 2009, 10:23 AM
You could go here (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=Kompozer&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all) and manually download the deb package and install by double clicking on it.

Dusenberg
February 11th, 2009, 10:38 AM
You could go here (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=Kompozer&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all) and manually download the deb package and install by double clicking on it.

Many thanks Partyboi2. I tried that but unfortunately this is still the latest version of Kompozer which has the bugs in (0.7.10). I need earlier version of the package any ideas how I can find that?? Much appreciated.

Partyboi2
February 11th, 2009, 11:59 AM
Go here (http://kompozer.net/download.php) and download the binary version of kompozer that you want. Once it is downloaded open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and change directory to where the downloaded file is. Eg

cd ~/DesktopThen extract it with

tar xvzf kompozer*.tgz
then change into the new directory

cd kompozerthen execute with

./kompozer

Dusenberg
February 11th, 2009, 01:15 PM
Thanks again Partyboi2 :). I've run out of time now so will try this later.... Cheers!