Finding the old software package in Ubuntu

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‘Package’ or the software packages in Ubuntu are often changed and the old version software package usually directly removed from the list of repositories.

Sometimes we need an older version of the software for several reasons such as new versions of software packages sometimes problems with the system or the existence of features in the software version that is not found in the new version.

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For that we need an older version of software for Ubuntu does not need to worry because we are still able to access and install it.
Software packages of all versions can be found here.

Download and install the old version of the software packages in the format.deb, we need to manually (but first remove the previous software package version that have now).

Manual command is:
dpkg-i namasoftware.deb
And one more link to load the softwares in Ubuntu that you can make a referral are:
http://packages.ubuntu.com/

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