Install previous version of Pycharm (snap)
Is it not possible to install an older version of Pycharm community using snap?
I tried snap install pycharm-community=2018.2.5 but it does not work.
2 Answers
It is possible. You have to inform to snap which channel you want to download the version from. In order to find the channel a.k.a version you do:
snap info pycharm-community
This is gonna give an output with information about this snap with a session including all available channels. Example of this session:
channels: stable: 2019.3.2 2020-01-22 (175) 364MB classic candidate: 2019.3.3 2020-01-31 (177) 364MB classic beta: 2019.3.3 2020-01-31 (177) 364MB classic edge: 2020.1-EAP 2020-01-27 (176) 429MB classic 2020.1/stable: – 2020.1/candidate: – 2020.1/beta: – 2020.1/edge: 2020.1-EAP 2020-01-27 (176) 429MB classic 2019.3/stable: 2019.3.2 2020-01-22 (175) 364MB classicAfter you choose the channel matching with the version you want, do:
snap switch --channel 2019.2/stable pycharm-community
This will tell snap to look to this channel for updates. After that run the command to install the version from that channel:
snap refresh pycharm-community
This will disable the current version as it was uninstalled and make the new active.
As per the time of writing the only solution I have found is to uninstall (snap remove pycharm-community) the snap version and manually download and and use the version you wish. However, this was only temporary due to a (now solved) bug in the database navigator.
Running (rather than installation) instructions are provided on this page.
