Install a module in Linux

Question

I am looking to download and install a module using the Linux command line.

How can I do this?

Answer 1

• You can install Drush (see Installing Drush on Ubuntu or How to install Drush server-wide in less than one minute); after, you can install a module with drush:

  • to download a module

    drush dl modulename
    

  • to enable the module

    drush en modulename
    

• Also, you can use wget to download the module, and make a directory inside the modules directory (in this case the modules directory is /home/youruser/public_html/sites/all/modules/).

    wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/modulename-6.x.tar.gz
    mkdir -p /home/youruser/public_html/sites/all/modules/modulename
    tar -zxf modulename-6.x.tar.gz -C /home/youruser/public_html/sites/all/modules/modulename

Enable the module in "Administer > Site building > Modules."

Answer 2

To install Drupal modules using command line, you have to install Drush Composer on your machine.

So use this link to install Drush using composer : https://github.com/drush-ops/drush

After installing it, open your terminal and go to your project/drupal directory into which you want to download modules.

To download and enable modules using a single command, run following command:

drush en -y your_module_name

Note : your_module_name should be the name present on the url of the module name like https://www.drupal.org/project/your_module_name

Answer 3

The best way to do this is via the Drush project. This will allow you to download and enable modules via the command line similar to the code below.

# Download the Views module
drush dl views

# Enable the Views module
drush en views

Answer 4

If you don't have (or don't want) drush, you can also just do something like this:

$ cd $MY_DRUPAL_SITE_ROOT/sites/all/modules
$ wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/querypath-6.x-1.6.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf querypath-6.x-1.6.tar.gz

(the -z flag to the tar command does a "gunzip" of the file before untarring)

From there, you can go to the Site Building -> Modules screen and install the module there.

That said, if you are going to be doing this a lot, Drush is very helpful

Answer 5

Install drush, which is a command line tool for Drupal. Downloading and installing a module would just need you to execute two commands. (The first command download the module, and the other one installs it.)

drush dl <modulename> 
drush en <modulename> -y

These commands will take care of module dependencies too.

Answer 6

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2- wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/modulename-7.x-1.0-rc2.tar.gz

 mkdir -p /home/force_password_change-7.x-1.0-rc2.tar.gz -C /home/www/html/transgenic/sites/all/modules/modulenmae

procedure -open terminal and give the download link adrress(above format) it will download save on desktop and follow second command and you can able to see your module,in modules.