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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

thilinistg
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You have to download three deb files. 

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/subversion/libsvn1_1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3.5_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/s/subversion/subversion_1.6.17dfsg-3ubuntu3.5_amd64.deb
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/d/db4.8/libdb4.8_4.8.30-11ubuntu1_amd64.deb

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
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  • extract `bin/*` `x86_64-linux-gnu/*` from those `*.deb`. run by `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=x86_64-linux-gnu bin/svn`. then svn16 svn18 can coexist. – yurenchen Jan 06 '18 at 08:25