Drush Installation

Drush is a command-line utility that allows for non-graphical access to the Drupal website. You can use it to automatically download and install themes and modules, clear the Drupal cache, upgrade the site and more. Tripal v3 supports Drush. For this tutorial we will use Drush and therefore we want the most recent, Drupal7-compatible version installed: we recommend Drush 8.x (see compatibility chart below.)

Drush Version Drush Branch PHP Compatible Drupal versions
Drush 9 master 5.6+ D8.4+
Drush 8 8.x 5.4.5+ D6, D7, D8.3
Drush 7 7.x 5.3.0+ D6, D7
Drush 6 6.x 5.3.0+ D6, D7
Drush 5 5.x 5.2.0+ D6, D7

As you can see from the above table, the newest version of Drupal which supports Drupal 7 is Drush 8.

Install Drush

The official documentation for installing Drush 8 can be found here: https://docs.drush.org/en/8.x/install/.

Warning

Don’t accidentally follow the Drupal 8 installation method for your Drupal 7 site! The “site-local” Drush installation won’t work for Drupal 7.