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I need Mercurial 1.8.x back

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I'm getting Mercurial from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~mercurial-ppa/+archive/releases/+packages?field.name_filter=mercurial&field.status_filter=&field.series_filter=

The Eclipse plugin MercurialEclipse (former HgEclipse) doesn't work well with version 1.9.0. How do I downgrade to 1.8.4?

I tried to follow the instructions here but aptitude versions mercurial only lists 1.9.0. When I try aptitude install mercurial=1.8.4-0ppa1, I get:

Unable to find a version "1.8.4-0ppa1" for the package "mercurial"

I'm on Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty).

[EDIT] Note that the official version (1.7.5 for Natty) is too old. I need something from the 1.8 range.

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answered 2 Years ago ardingiba · Accepted Answer

Looking at the PPA page you can see 1.8.4 is marked as "Superseded". This means it's no longer provided by the repository. That's the reason aptitude versions mercurial isn't behaving as you'd want.

You have some options:

Update: The files are still available through Launchpad. You can find the built files here. Download the debs you want. I suggest you remove the PPA at this point (per point 3) and then manually install the debs.

Keep using 1.9.x

Install ppa-purge and purge the PPA, so you're back on 1.7.5

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

sudo ppa-purge ppa:mercurial-ppa/ppa # or something like that

As #3 but then find another PPA that provides 1.8.5. I suggest if you do ever find a PPA, unless it specifically says it's going to provide 1.8 eternally, that you go on to lock the version of the packages it installs.

Do it yourself. Remove everything you have, purging the PPA then: download the source for 1.8, compile it, package it (checkinstall should help you there), install it and lock it.