By jim0203 on

Edit: ignore this post! The instructions in README.txt were fine, I just wasn't following them closely enough!

I'm having real problems installing Drush on my local Mac OS X machine, which I use with XAMPP as a testing environment for Drupal. I've tried my best to install it (following the instructions in README.txt) but I can't get it to work. I'm no exactly a wizard at the command line.

Here's what I do:

1: Download the drush.tar.gz file to the desktop.
2: Double-click on th .tar.gz file to decompress it. This creates the drush folder.
3: Move the drush folder to /usr/local/lib/, which I've read is a good place to have it.
4: Open up a terminal window and type

cd /usr/local/lib/drush

5: As per the instructions in README.txt, I type

chmod u+x /usr/local/lib/drush/drush

6: At this point I'm expecting to be able to go into the drush folder and type "drush" to at least get some kind of help file: but typing drush just gives me:

-bash: drush: command not found

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

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vm commented

my reading of the readme.txt it does state to put drush in /usr/local/lib

it states to create a link, which I assume is a symlink or the optional path.

For Linux/Unix/Mac:
1. Untar the tarball into a folder outside of your web site (/path/to/drush)
2. Make the 'drush' command executable:
$ chmod u+x /path/to/drush/drush
3. (Optional, but recommended:) To ease the use of drush,
- create a link to drush in a directory that is in your $PATH, e.g.:
$ ln -s /path/to/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush
OR
- create an alias to drush:
$ alias drush='/path/to/drush/drush'
(this goes into .profile or .bash_aliases in your home folder)

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abelb commented

im somewhat new to the command line as well, I don't have a lib directory in local. my lib directory is on the same level as local.
Is this the directory i should put it in?

when i tried, i did not have permissions.
I'm guessing it really doesn't matter where you put it but there is a preferred place and that is /usr/local/lib/drush

can i put it in /usr/local/bin? that is where i have wget

I'm also confused about where i put the bash alias 

create an alias to drush:
       $ alias drush='/path/to/drush/drush'
       (this goes into .profile or .bash_aliases in your home folder)

how do i find this file on Mac OSX?

thanks for any help! i really want to save some time installing modules!

andrea

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JayKayAu commented

Hey kids!

This is what I did, and it works beautifully (most if it is the same as above):

1. Download drush.tar.gz to your desktop (or wherever)

2. Jump across to the Terminal
cd ~/Desktop

3. Extract it with
tar -zxf drush.tar.gz

4. Move it to /usr/local/lib
sudo mv drush /usr/local/lib/

5. Make it executable
sudo chmod u+x /usr/local/lib/drush/drush

6. Then stick it in /usr/bin/ so that you can run it from anywhere
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush

Hope this helps someone :D

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eriknewby commented

Thanks JayKayAu! That did it for me. :)

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aerozeppelin commented

Thank you this worked for me!

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ntrepid8 commented

This worked great!

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Thanks, really great instructions, much appreciated! :)

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Havind-1 commented

Thank you JayKayAu it's work all good

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koenvandenbossche commented

Thank you very much for your support! :)

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csmcreative commented

That worked great. Since I am on Lion, I just did /usr/lib/ and it works now. Much appreciated!
Chris

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delacosta456 commented

hi
I confirm.. very nice for me too

thanks

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Diegen commented

this worked for me.

using osx 10.6 - leopard

i downloaded drush and put it in my home folder. thus to access drush I would have to type:

drush/drush to get a response from drush.

click on your Macintosh HD icon, then press SHIFT COMMAND G which opens your GO to folder dialogue. Enter usr and press enter. You should now see the folders "bin" and "lib". This was helpful to me since I do not have a "local" folder inside "lib" i.e my lib path looks like this: lib/bin/drush and not lib/local/bin/drush.

With my structure of the lib directory confirmed, simply copy drush to your lib/bin directory anduse terminal to enable write permissions:

chmod u+x /usr/bin/drush

then the last step:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush

thats it.

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Funkwarrior commented

Thank you Diegen, works for me!

but I use this sequence:

$ tar -zxf drush.tar.gz
$ sudo mv drush /usr/lib/
$ chmod u+x /usr/lib/drush
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush

Thank you again!

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Diegen commented

Cool

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yurtboy commented

thanks

Alfred Nutile
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clintthayer commented

Worked as well. Many thanks.

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KrisBulman commented

yep, did the trick, except i used

$ tar -xzvf drush-version.tar.gz
$ sudo mv drush /usr/lib/
$ chmod u+x /usr/lib/drush/drush
$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush

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richard.c.allen2386 commented

Worked for me. OSX 10.7

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betovarg
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commented

I get this on the last step (sudo ln -s /usr/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush)

ln: /usr/bin/drush: File exists

And still cant use when typing just "drush"
Can someone give me a hand?
thnx

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betovarg
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Location San José
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After actually understanding what all the commands do, it came to me that i do not have the usr/local folder, so i installed it changing the paths:

Move it to /usr/lib
sudo mv drush /usr/lib/

Make it executable
sudo chmod u+x /usr/lib/drush/drush

Then stick it in /usr/bin/ so that you can run it from anywhere
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush

and... everything works now.

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jim0203 commented

http://www.drupalcoder.com/blog/easily-install-drush-on-mac-os-x-using-h...

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josmera01 commented

In my function as follows:
1. Download drush.tar.gz to your desktop (or wherever)
2. Extract it with
3. Move it to /usr/local/lib
4. Make it executable
5. Then stick it in /usr/bin/ so that you can run it from anywhere
sudo ln -s /usr/local/lib/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush
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arthipesa commented

I am trying to install it on my PPC, but somehow it shows Parse error: parse error in /usr/local/lib/drush/includes/environment.inc on line 517 Help!

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killerpoke commented

You may be interested in homebrew. Drush is supported by brew, so the only thing I had to do was typing:

brew install drush

http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/

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cbladd commented

nice

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kclarkson commented

@killerpoke

Thanks for the Brew :)

This will make life much easier when I have to update Drush.

Thanks !!

Kaleem S. Clarkson
www.kaleemclarkson.com

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hanamizuki commented

I wrote a post about this, thanks for the information above.

http://miss-hana.com/drupal-install-drush-on-maclinux/

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Ganganation commented

I had the same problem. I adjusted the previous called solution.
But I got the following error: Could not open input file: /usr/lib/php/drush/drush.php

After reading this I realised I had to move the stuff from /usr/local/lib/drush to /usr/lib/php/drush/
Using the following command:

#sudo mv /usr/local/lib/drush /usr/lib/php/drush

This worked for me. Hope this helps!

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ain commented

I used MacPorts and with a PEAR quickfix it worked out fine, see the few easy steps at Installing Drush on Mac OS X the developer way.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Thank you. Works great.

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Eneay001 commented

Works fine. Thank you.

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zgjsa commented

I'm running MAMP 2.2 on an Mac OS 10.9.1 and have installed Drush (Master). When running any drush commands, I get no output, response, results or error messages. It returns to the command prompt. After running a drush command, I am unable to run any other terminal commands except for exit and cd, and I am only able to cd into a previous directory.

Is this a bug, a result of me not installing correctly or something else entirely? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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jaypan
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When you say Drush (Master) do you mean the Master branch of the git repository? If so, you should use one of the stable branches for a start.

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