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# Need to downgrade your Ghost version?
- URL: https://snubmonkey.com/need-to-downgrade/
- Published: 2021-12-06T04:19:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-16T22:35:49.000Z
- Description: This is the third in a series of posts featuring Protips, tips, tricks, hacks, and secrets provided by Our Team 🙊 — We want to share our top tips for the growing and thriving Linux community out there. Because sometimes you need a little help...
- Author: Kenzo Kylo
- Tags: ghost cms, how to 🪄, issues 🛠, linux 🐧

Have you ever been stuck after an update and hardly wished to downgrade...   
Well here is a workaround. The thing is to trick the system to allow you to "update" to an older version.

We need to edit the `update.js` file on the GhostCLI directly:

But first, you need to stop the service: `ghost stop` then;

```
$ sudo nano /usr/lib/node_modules/ghost-cli/lib/commands/update.js
```

and add the latest known working version for ie.  
  
`actionVersion: "4.24.1"`  

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);
        }

        const {force, zip, v1} = argv;
        const version = argv.version ? `${argv.version}` : null;

        const context = {
            instance,
            force,
            activeVersion: instance.version,    <<<
            version,
            zip,
            v1
        };

        if (argv.rollback) {
            if (!instance.previousVersion) {
                throw new Error('No previous version found');
            }
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You should now be able to use the `ghost start` command without any problem.😁  
We hope we have been of some help!