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Rollback to a previous Homebrew formula version

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brew-rollback.md

Source: https://medium.com/@schmijos/installing-old-homebrew-formulas-dc91de0c329c

Open the GitHub page for the formula:

$ brew info --github awscli

Click on History.
Locate the commit with the version required and click on it.
Locate the file awscli.rb, click on ... and View file.
Click on Raw and copy URL.
Install formula:

$ brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/497b20ccc30e674a22dd3f5efb9abcae162f8972/Formula/awscli.rb

We may have to unlink the current version first:

$ brew unlink awscli

Check installation:

$ brew ls --versions awscli
awscli 2.0.0 1.17.10

Switch to the new version:

$ brew switch awscli 1.17.10

Check versions:

$ aws --version
aws-cli/1.17.10 Python/3.8.1 Darwin/19.3.0 botocore/1.14.10

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