How do you install older versions of software

[davethewave83]

I'm running Empathy 2.30.3 on Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx)
and Empathy 3.2.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)

Empathy 2.3 has file transfer support
Empathy 3.2 has file transfer greyed out

I would like to install 2.3 in oneiric ocelot.

I edit the sources.list and commented out all sources and then added the repo for Lucid, hit refresh on synaptic but, it still reported 3.2.0.1 as being the only version available.

[UltimateCat]

Open a terminal or Control> Alt> T


]apt-get install <nameofpackage>


I learned directly from a Linux Rep. that if you are running a server with no GUI than you can not use Synaptic Pkg Mgr.

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie

Hope this helps

[davethewave83]

Open a terminal or Control> Alt> T


]apt-get install <nameofpackage>


I learned directly from a Linux Rep. that if you are running a server with no GUI than you can not use Synaptic Pkg Mgr.

www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie

Hope this helps

Thanks for the reply, but apt-get install empathy will just install the latest version won't it? I would like to install the older version.

[raja.genupula]

From the cache folder of the 10.04 get the empathy files and put them in a folder and do the installation


sudo dpkg -i <here plakce that name>.deb

if you got any dependencies problem look them at the synaptic package manager and install them from there and try again the above commands .

All the best .

[davethewave83]

From the cache folder of the 10.04 get the empathy files and put them in a folder and do the installation


sudo dpkg -i <here plakce that name>.deb

if you got any dependencies problem look them at the synaptic package manager and install them from there and try again the above commands .

All the best .

this might work, but I don't think so as the 10.04 package is amd64, and the oneiric OS is 32 bit.

worth a shot though, I'll try it tomorrow.

[raja.genupula]

ok then download empathy from the ubuntu packages
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/empathy

install it , get the required dependencies from synaptic .

all the best