I haven’t used Drupal for a while now, so I decided to check the latest stable version. Before, I used to install Drupal manually until I heard about Drush. Drush is a command line tool that is designed to interact and manage Drupal. I then explored using Drush and was amazed on how easy it is to maintain a Drupal project using it.
But since I cleaned up my dev machine a few months ago by freshly installing Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) in it, I need to re-install Drush again in my system. I checked the Drush documentation site and found that there is a new way of installing it via composer.
I decided to give it a try and followed the instructions step by step. But as soon as I tried to verify if Drush was installed successfully by running this command:
$ drush status
I got this error:
The program 'drush' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install drush
I checked the steps if I missed anything. Where did I go wrong? I figured that it must be path of the Drush binary executable file, Ubuntu couldn’t find it. So I decided to write this article to provide the steps needed to install Drush for Ubuntu 14.04 users. The steps are the same but with a slight modification.
Installing Drush via Composer
- Install Composer globally.
$ curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer - Add composer’s
bindirectory to the system path by placing
export PATH="$HOME/.config/composer/vendor/bin:$PATH"into your ~/.bashrc - Install latest stable Drush:
$ composer global require drush/drush. - Verify that Drush works:
$ drush status
Notice the change in step 2? I corrected the path in order to point to the correct binary executable file of Drush.