Downgrading RStudio Workbench – Posit Support

You may wish to rollback to a previous version of RStudio 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 RStudio Workbench, to version 1.4.1717-3 (Juliet Rose). The steps outlined below will not work for versions prior & for unsupported versions.

Notify users ahead of time of the upgrade. You can use the admin notification feature.
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
```
Put the old version of the server into offline mode:
- ```
sudo rstudio-server offline
```

Uninstall RStudio Server:

Ubuntu/Debian
- ```
sudo apt-get remove rstudio-server
```
RHEL/CentOS
- ```
sudo yum remove rstudio-server
```

Download your preferred version of RStudio 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

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

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 RStudio 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 RStudio Workbench, your license status will remain untouched as well.

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