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

Using Drupal Commons as an example

  1. cd /home/quickstart
  2. wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/commons-7.x-3.3-no-core.tar.gz
  3. tar -zxvf commons-7.x-3.3-no-core.tar.gz
  4. 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.