Downgrading Posit Workbench

You may wish to rollback to a previous version of Posit Workbench from a more recent version. The instructions for how to do so can be found below:

NOTE: This has been tested and will work when downgrading from calendar-based versions of Posit Workbench, to version 1.4.1717-3 (Juliet Rose). The steps outlined below will not work for versions prior & for unsupported versions.

1. Notify users ahead of time of the upgrade. You can use the admin notification feature.
2. Check if there are any active sessions running:  

   • sudo rstudio-server active-sessions

     • If there are active sessions, then suspend all active user sessions: 

       • sudo rstudio-server suspend-all

3. Put the old version of the server into offline mode: 

   • sudo rstudio-server offline

4. Uninstall Posit Workbench:
   • Ubuntu/Debian

     • sudo apt-get remove rstudio-server

   • RHEL/CentOS

     • sudo yum remove rstudio-server

5. Download your preferred version of Posit Workbench from our Older Versions page:

   • curl -O <RStudio Workbench URL here>

     • For example:

       • curl -O https://download2.rstudio.org/server/xenial/amd64/rstudio-server-1.4.1717-3-amd64.deb

6. Download and install the upgraded version using your package manager:
7. Ubuntu/Debian

8.  

   sudo gdebi <rstudio-server-package.deb>
   

   RHEL/CentOS

   sudo yum install --nogpgcheck <rstudio-server-package.rpm>
   

    

   • For example:

     • sudo gdebi rstudio-server-1.4.1717-3-amd64.deb

     • sudo yum install --nogpgcheck rstudio-server-1.4.1717-3-amd64.deb

You have now installed a previous version of Posit Workbench. Restart the server and put it into online mode for the changes to take effect:

Restart the server:

• • sudo rstudio-server restart

Put the new version online: 

• • sudo rstudio-server online

Your configuration and settings remain unchanged from the previous version, and if you are running Posit Workbench, your license status will remain untouched as well.