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I need to use version 0.13.0 instead of version 0.15.x. It seems stack overflow requires me to add many lines of text below this line, when all I want to ask is a simple question on how to down grade salt minion can't find any ppa... repository that has it or anything...

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More complete answer:

git clone git://github.com/saltstack/salt  
cd salt  
git checkout v0.13.0  
sudo python setup.py install --force

These are the actual commands you would use. Note that I checked out the v0.13.0 tag as opposed to the branch. Tags are used for specific release points, branches are not guaranteed to match. Tags are always formatted vX.XX.X

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  • force installing something from git is not safe or clean in any scenario. – Matt Joyce Aug 04 '17 at 16:27
  • You're right. This is also from 2013. Since then repo.saltstack.com had been created with packages for a variety of operating systems. Using packages is usually the right choice and supports downgrading. – Colton Myers Aug 05 '17 at 17:54
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I wouldn't suggest this method. Since it will be really hard to maintain it, upgrading/unistalling.

In order to remove it, you will need to do it manually.

A better way is through pip and defining the specific version as is being described here.

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afxentios
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  • pip is not really a safe way to handle packages. better than force installs from git, but still not really a safe way to deploy stuff. It also likely violates your package managers understanding of the package. – Matt Joyce Aug 04 '17 at 16:28
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clone salt git repo

checkout 0.13 branch

sudo python setup.py install --force

got this from salt irc...

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