# 2017-02-06

A couple of weeks ago I resurrected an old project [1]. At the time 
when I deveoped the project 2-3 years ago I used CouchDB 1.4, now 
CouchDB 2.x is the latest version. There were a number of breaking 
changes which made it impossible to import my old backuped databases.

Luckily, it is easily possible to install older versions of packages 
on Archlinux. I used an old package archive [2] to download old 
versions of Erlang and CouchDB. 

After untarring, it was just `$ makepkg` and then I could install the 
packages via `sudo pacman -U ./....`. This is the same workflow as 
used when downloading "third-party" packages (e.g. from AUR) and 
installing them. It's nice to see how well this ties into the system, 
since Arch also displayed incompatible dependencies to me.

[1] http://findsgut.de
[2] https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/e/erlang-nox/