By Waven on

I want to use a module but its for drupal 5, but I have a found a patch to port the version 5 to version 6. But I dont know what to with the file. Ive read http://drupal.org/node/359234 but it doesnt help. I dont know what running the sheel command means. I realy dont know how to do this :[

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vm commented

http://drupal.org/search/node/patches

is a list of similar questions. you don't have to patch from shell. Shell would be something to ask your host about not all hosts allow shell access.

depending on the OS of your local machine you can use a program to patch directly on your local machine than upload the patched files to your installation. However, you should patch files, then test them on a test install and not on your production site to ensure that they work correctly.

If on a windows system you should watch: http://www.lullabot.com/videocast/install-cygwin-windows-xp

NOTE: while patching is not a very hard thing to do it requires learning how to work with the software and learning the methods.