Debian 9 & Elasticsearch 1.7.5

[peter_b]

[PROBLEM]
In order to install AtoM, I needed to install an older version of Elasticsearch (that doesn't seem to be in their repos anymore).
Anyways, I need ES v1.7 - so I simply added the main repositories for "sid" (unstable): It contains ES v1.7.5-1

Tried starting ES service:

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$ sudo systemctl start elasticsearch

Didn't work:

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● elasticsearch.service - Elasticsearch
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service; disabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Thu 2018-01-11 21:58:07 CET; 39ms ago
     Docs: http://www.elastic.co
  Process: 11714 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec (code=exited, status=203/EXEC)

Jän 11 21:58:07 debian9 systemd[1]: Starting Elasticsearch...
Jän 11 21:58:07 debian9 systemd[11714]: elasticsearch.service: Failed at step EXEC spawning /usr/share/elasticsearch/bin/elasticsearch-systemd-pre-exec: No such file or directory
Jän 11 21:58:07 debian9 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=203
Jän 11 21:58:07 debian9 systemd[1]: Failed to start Elasticsearch.
Jän 11 21:58:07 debian9 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Unit entered failed state.
Jän 11 21:58:07 debian9 systemd[1]: elasticsearch.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I've had different versions of ES installed previously, and therefore the systemd service file didn't match (was a leftover):

/usr/lib/systemd/system/elasticsearch.service

So I removed ES with "--purge":

$ apt-get remove --purge elasticsearch

And then re-installed it:

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$ sudo apt-get install elasticsearch=1.7.5-1

Still not working...