How to downgrade subversion 1.8 to 1.6 in ubuntu 14.04? [duplicate]

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

1 Answer

Advantages of this answer

1. No changes in a list file
2. Preventing upgrades
3. Simple reversible

You have to download three deb files.

cd ~/Downloads
wget
wget
wget 

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