Installing Drush manually

This article describes how to install Drush manually.

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Most hosting accounts already include Drush by default. However, it may be a few versions behind the newest version. To run the latest version of Drush, install it manually using the following procedure.

Installing Drush

The Drush installation process uses composer, a PHP dependency manager. Therefore, if you have not already installed composer on your account, you must do so before installing Drush.

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For information about how to install composer on your account, please see this article.

To install Drush, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your account using SSH.

2. Change to the directory where you installed Drupal. For example, type cd ~/public_html/drupal.

3. To install Drush, type the following command:

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   composer require drush/drush
   

4. To add Drush to your path, type the following command:

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   echo 'export PATH="./vendor/bin:$PATH"' > ~/.bashrc
   

5. To make the new path take effect immediately, type the following command:

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   source ~/.bashrc
   

   Drush is now installed and ready to use on your account. To run it, change to the Drupal root directory, and then type drush.

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   • To confirm Drush installed correctly, type the following command:

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     drush version
     

   • To update Drush to the newest version, type the following command:

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     composer update drush/drush
     

6. If you have multiple Drupal sites installed on your account, repeat steps 2 to 3 for each Drupal site.

More Information

For more information about Drush, please visit http://drush.org.

Related Articles

• Using Drush for Drupal

• Configuring Drush site aliases for Drupal