Comments on: Downgrading A Ubuntu Package

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:42:33 +0000

Hi all,

I have had the same problem as you with the version 6.26. And as John , in my case the old version is not in the cache.

I downloaded the version 6.22 from this place http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/s/sun-java6/ and with the version in the cache, I installed the version 6.22 following using
sudo aptitude install sun-java6-jdk=6-22…

Thanks for your help.

By: John

John — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 16:05:23 +0000

funny, it didn’t work for me. tried to downgrade from 1.6.0_18 to 17 (same issues as 14 causing crashes). I don’t see the previous version (17) when I check the cache. any ideas where to get it from? Background: my JDownloader is throwing Java erros and crashing. I read that downgrading to 1.6.0_17 fixes it.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:22:50 +0000

If it sounds funny then you must be pronouncing Ubuntu incorrectly. “An” does go before all words beginning with vowels, *except* when the letter u makes the same sound as the y in you, or o makes the same sound as w in won, then a is used. So you must be pronouncing Ubuntu as “yoo-bun-too” but it is actually pronounced “oo-boon-too” according to the official Ubuntu site, and Nelson Mandela.

Please see:

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/this-is-how-you-pronounce-ubuntu

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By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:52:08 +0000

This is a great tip, synaptic does have the ability to pin packages so that they don’t get updated when newer versions come out, thanks for sharing it.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:50:56 +0000

Hmm, from a strictly grammatical point of view you’re probably correct (infact you ARE correct as far as I know). However it sounds a bit funny if you say “An Ubuntu” out loud, so I prefer to stick with “A Ubuntu”, which is a lot easier on the ear.

By: Hiroe

Hiroe — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 14:45:57 +0000

it’s “An Ubuntu”

By: sola

sola — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:19:54 +0000

It is worth to pin the sun-java6* packages (with Synaptic you can do that easily) because the Update Manager will automatically update from 13 to 14 next time you run a symple system update.

The pins can be removed after the issues have been resolved with 14.

By: Alan Skorkin

Alan Skorkin — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:54:10 +0000

Yeah, I didn’t think I’d be the only one with JDK 1.6.0_14 issues.
Glad I could help.

By: sola

sola — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:21:33 +0000

Thanks for this post, it saved me a lot of time when I realized that Sun Java 1.6 u14 is SCREWED.

My problem findings with Java on Jaunty:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7653716#post7653716