What I’m trying to do
1.8.4 doesn’t work well on my machine. I’m running Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS. Some files don’t open, some plugins don’t work, LaTeX doesn’t format, and the outline window doesn’t recognize any headings.
It could be some problem with my computer, but I honestly don’t really have time to debug and would rather just load a version that works.
So I went back to 1.7.7 and it worked for the last several days. But I forgot to turn off auto-updates and it just updated back to 1.8.4 again, and all the problems returned.
When I tried turning off auto-updates, removing 1.8.4 again and reinstalling 1.7.7, as before, it just keeps reverting to 1.8.4.
Things I have tried
I got the 1.7.7 release .deb file from the github releases page.
I installed it:
~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i obsidian_1.7.7_amd64.deb
[sudo] password for jeff:
Selecting previously unselected package obsidian.
(Reading database ... 366170 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack obsidian_1.7.7_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking obsidian (1.7.7) ...
Setting up obsidian (1.7.7) ...
update-alternatives is /usr/bin/update-alternatives
update-alternatives: using /opt/Obsidian/obsidian to provide /usr/bin/obsidian (obsidian) in auto mode
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.6+22.04.20220217-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) ...
and opened it:
~/Downloads$ obsidian
2025-02-08 20:39:59 Loading updated app package /home/jeff/.config/obsidian/obsidian-1.8.4.asar
Updates disabled.
It says updates are disabled, but it opens 1.8.4. So I removed it:
~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -r obsidian
(Reading database ... 366264 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing obsidian (1.7.7) ...
update-alternatives: warning: alternative /opt/Obsidian/obsidian (part of link group obsidian) doesn't exist; removing from list of alternatives
update-alternatives: warning: /etc/alternatives/obsidian is dangling; it will be updated with best choice
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.6+22.04.20220217-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mailcap (3.70+nmu1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.36.0-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.26-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
And then I repeated the installation steps I did before, and I get the same result.
How can I revert to a different version?