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On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 4:43:21 PM UTC-7, Christopher Fisher wrote: > > Hi all- > > I'm trying reinstall Julia .4.6 on Ubuntu 16.04. For some reason when I > follow the platform specific instructions, > <http://julialang.org/downloads/platform.html> it installs .5.0 dev > instead of the stable version .4.6. Is there a way to install .4.6? > Unfortunately, .5 dev is unstable and doesn't work with Juno. > > Thanks in advance for your help. >