Access old versions easily

[xBlivion]

Hello, I'm not really tech-savvy, and In order to access some old games and mods, I'll need an older version of Minetest, preferably 4.13. I was thinking like a .deb file, since I can easily run those files. I'm still having trouble compiling :( Thanks!

(Linux)

[MCL]

Older versions of Minetest require older libraries which may be hard to get on new Linux distributions, if you are not tech savvy, I recommend that if you do not need to modify the source code, you can just use Wine or a Windows computer if you have access to one to run binaries downloaded from c55.me/minetest

[rubenwardy]

You can find all previous versions of Minetest here: https://github.com/minetest/minetest/releases
You will need to compile yourself if using this method

You may also be able to install older versions using apt, something like this:

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# Install specific version
sudo apt-get install minetest=0.4.13

# Prevent updates
sudo apt-mark hold minetest

Also, 0.4.13 is over 5 years old. There are known vulnerabilities and problems with it. You should definitely find replacements or update those games and mods. Most of the breakages are differences in entity behaviour, aiming to make it less buggy and unreliable

[TPH]

Sorry to bump a post 3 years later but how would I do this on Win8.1? (yes I know, terrible type of Windows to have)

I'm not tech savvy like the poster here as well and I'm curious as to how to get this to work. I'd like to test how my mods run on each version so that I can adequately determine if my assumption is correct for their min version ;p
I know I'm using functions from Minetest 0.4.16 at least (I use an addon for Zerobrane that has 0.4.16 library) - but that's different from actually running in said version.

Edit: Nevermind I don't read properly. I couldn't figure out how to access releases last time but a friend of mine just pointed it out to me, thanks!