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Update as of 2022, elpa lists the older versions of a package on its page. One can download the archive file and then use package-install-file command on emacs to install this specific version.
Load the File Manually To use the package, all you have to do is to make emacs load the file. Alt + x load-file then give the file path. Now, emacs is aware of the package. To activate, call the command in the package.
If Emacs is not installed already, you can install it by running (as root) a command such as ' dnf install emacs ' (Red Hat and derivatives; use ' yum ' in older distributions) or ' apt-get install emacs ' (Debian and derivatives).
Once installed, the contents of a package are placed in a subdirectory of ~/. emacs. d/elpa/ (you can change the name of that directory by changing the variable package-user-dir ). The package subdirectory is named name - version , where name is the package name and version is its version string.
I recently upgraded Emacs Cider through MELPA and it seems to have a bug on my machine. I don't need the bleeding edge builds and am happy to go back to an older build until they fix the issue. However I'm not sure how to install an older version of a package that exists in the package list.
I am looking to either:
Edit: this was closed as a duplicate of Is it possible to downgrade packages installed with ELPA?, however that one didn't have an answer, so I re-asked the question.
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