installing Distributions on Quickstart

Last updated on

30 April 2025

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Instructions for installing distributions / installation profiles on your Quickstart machine.

Using Drupal Commons as an example

cd /home/quickstart
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/commons-7.x-3.3-no-core.tar.gz
tar -zxvf commons-7.x-3.3-no-core.tar.gz
drush quickstart-create commons.dev --profile=commons --makefile=~/websites/commons/build-commons.make

Important information

use the no-core files
urls of latest releases can be found under the 'View all releases' link at the bottom of every distributions project page.

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