Yes, because the two packages are named the same, dpkg looks at the 0.4 version number, compares it to the 0.3.4 version number, and decides that 0.4 is newer, and therefore should continue to remain installed. The best way around this is to remove the nightlies repository, add the stable repository, then remove julia and reinstall. -E
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:26 AM, Test This <[email protected]> wrote: > Figured this out. I was thinking that like on Mac I have find where the > directory containing julia and then delete it. But then I tried the sudo > apt-get remove julia and that worked. > Then I deleted the nightlies PPA followed with sudo apt-get install > julia, which installed 0.3.4. > > > On Thursday, January 8, 2015 11:57:09 AM UTC-5, Test This wrote: >> >> >> Can someone please let me know how I can switch from version 0.4.0 to >> 0.3.4 or 0.3.2? >> >> I have added the *ppa:staticfloat/juliareleases *on Elliot Saba's page >> here: https://launchpad.net/~staticfloat/+archive/ubuntu/juliareleases. >> and ran sudo apt-get update followed by sudo apt-get upgrade >> >> However, that does not automatically replace the newer version of Julia >> (as I expected). >> >> The problem is that unlike on Mac, I don't know where Julia is saved on >> ubuntu 12.04 in order to delete/uninstall the new version and replace it >> with the older version. >> >> Thanks in advance for your help. >> >> >> >> >>
