By rusloc on

Amazingly, after learning Drupal and reading this and other websites/guides for weeks, I cannot find information on "How to update a module?"
Where is it in Drupal's documentation?

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cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

Delete the old directory. Install the new directory. Run update.php.

Most smart people precede these steps with (a) set site in maintenance mode and (b) back up database

If you are using something I have posted, test before restoring site to normal usage.

:)

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rusloc commented

How come these concise, clear instructions are not EASILY found anywhere in the guides?

Thank you very much for a quick reply. What you said confirmed my own findings from various sources. I wish this info was included in the most obvious place like Drupal Cookbook.

cayenne’s picture

cayenne commented

This has been a topic that boils up from time to time.

The rank n00b questions that are so hard for the new guys and eye-rollingly easy for we grizzled veterans of months or year of Drupal. These are hard because we forget what it was like.

The trouble, I think, is that the simple questions change as fast as the code changes, and the answers do too.

Maybe we need a Drupal ABC location for this stuff!

:)

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rusloc commented

The trouble, I think, is that the simple questions change as fast as the code changes, and the answers do too.

My question, they say, will be obsolete after D7 release?..

vm’s picture

vm commented

if the plugin manager is in D7 then the answer to your question is yes.

3 clicks into the documentation area, how to update contrib modules = http://drupal.org/node/250790

and then there is always google = http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=drupal+how+to+update+modu...