I have tried
sudo apt-get install ethereum
sudo apt-get install ethereum=VERSION
And
sudo apt-get upgrade ethereum
To install a specific version of Geth but I can't.
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An older version of Geth can be installed using tar file, here I am using version 1.8.16. To download the required Geth file, we need to check the OS version using the following command.
> dpkg --print-architecture
amd64
Once you have your OS information, download (amd64 tar in our case) file from the Geth website.
Upload downloaded tar file on a server and extract using the following command:
sudo tar -xvf <filename>
In our case,
sudo tar -xvf geth-linux-amd64-1.8.16-477eb093.tar.gz
Step into extracted folder
cd geth-linux-amd64-1.8.16-477eb093
It should contain the geth file, make it executable with the below command.
sudo chmod +x geth
Copy file to the user bin.
sudo cp geth /usr/local/bin/
Check the Geth version with the following command
> geth version
Version: 1.8.16-stable
Geth is now installed successfully on the system
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You can get the older versions from here:
https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/releases
To install ethereum on Ubuntu type the following commands into your CLI:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ethereum/ethereum
sudo apt update
Once this is done type:
sudo apt install ethereum
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Thankyou for response, I have tried these commands but still the geth version is the latest 1.9.6 and I need to install 1.8.27. – BP1997 Oct 22 '19 at 12:31
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Have you downloaded the older version from the github source? – Barb Oct 22 '19 at 13:57
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yeah I did, but still the same version. – BP1997 Oct 23 '19 at 06:40