How can I install Drush without Composer?

Question

I've been trying to install Drush for a while but have failed. I have no experience in command line applications.

I've seen quite a few tutorials:

• https://www.drupal.org/node/594744
• https://www.drupal.org/node/2405811
• https://drupalize.me/videos/wonderful-world-composer
• https://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows

but each one says that Composer is required. The catch, I can't seem to get Composer to work either.

Would I ever be able to install Drush, but still work around installing Composer?

Specifications:

1. Windows 10
2. Drupal 8.1.8
3. Cpanel 56.0.33
4. Php 5.59 (or higher according to this)
5. Composer Manager 8x-10-rc

Answer 1

This is the simplest solution I have found.

If you don't want to use composer, follow the instructions here...

https://sharpi.sh/blog/web-development/install-drush-on-ubuntu-quickly-without-composer/

1. Download a Drush release from Github to user folder

wget https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases/download/8.1.17/drush.phar

2. Rename drush.phar to drush

mv drush.phar drush

3. Find the bin directory

echo $PATH

which shows something like.... /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games

I’ll go with /usr/local/bin

4. Move drush to the bin

mv drush /usr/local/bin/drush

5. Change permissions to

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drush

6. Test with

drush version

Answer 2

Just follow the installation instructions on http://docs.drush.org/en/8.x/install/ No need for Composer to use Drush 8.

PS! Drush 9 is meant to be installed site local - as part of your Drupal installation - using Composer.