I have Drush 6 installed in my system.
I need to install Drush 5 too (hosting doesn't support Drush6), how do I install Drush5 without uninstalling Drush6 and use both of them simultaneously, Drush6 for local development and Drush5 for SFTP.
3 Answers
In your .bashrc:
alias drush5=/path/to/drush5/drush
alias drush6=/path/to/drush6/drush
With this, drush5 will give you Drush 5, drush6 will give you Drush 6, and drush will give you whichever of these appears first on your $PATH.
Rename your aliases to suit.
answered Dec 4, 2013 at 15:59
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so you mean download the Drush folder and make a bash profile. Ok, I was hoping some solution like
apt-get install. I'll give it a try– SaraDec 4, 2013 at 16:04 -
voila, it works... thanks... Yes Pantheon is crap... Acquia uses Drush 4.7 still when I run Drush6 for SFTP, it has no issues.\– SaraDec 4, 2013 at 16:20
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I wouldn't be so harsh on Pantheon; based on what I saw in the related issue that Clive cross-posted, it sounds like their aliases are fine, and it's a Drush issue with db-url. Someone should post an issue in the Drush queue for resolution in Drush 6 and Drush master. Dec 4, 2013 at 18:36
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I was getting
-bash: drush10: command not founderror. I closed and reopened my putty, then the issue is gone.– siddiqDec 9, 2020 at 22:53
One option on Debian/Ubuntu is to use the "alternatives" system to register multiple different versions as alternatives, and switch between them. That way, the command drush can be switched to point to different versions, without having to change any scripting you've done elsewhere.
However, this isn't as useful as you'd think, as switching between them is still a bit cumbersome: update-alternatives requires you to provide the full path to the version of Drush you want to make temporarily "primary".
With that in mind, this blogpost (disclaimer: my own) explains how to script the alternatives system to switch between Drush versions using something like switchdrush VERSION and sudo access. If you're not on a Debian-based *nix, then that scripting should be adaptable, to instead just change any /usr/bin/drush symlink.
Thank you J-P!
The link to http://www.jpstacey.info/blog/2014-04-07/switching-between-drush-major-versions.html helped me a lot on Ubuntu.
However, you have to adapt the grep-command in case you are using a localized (non-English) OS/Terminal.
In my case (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - German) i had to replace
command=`update-alternatives --display drush | grep "priority $version" | awk
With
command=`update-alternatives --display drush | grep "Priorität $version" | awk
drush sagives me the sites available and when I dodrush @sitename.env statusit gives Unexpected results. I have been in contact with Pantheon support team, they (Ricky Pugh) say its because I am using Drush 6. I wonder how you are working, can you verify you get same status fromdrush SITE statusfor both local environment and Pantheon environment?drush site statusnormally, I get the "to suppress this error, add the option --strict=0", so I add it and run again, and get back the status of the site as normal.