Download Different Versions of Drupal with Drush
31st December 2013
I still maintain a number of Drupal 6 sites and occassionally need to download Drupal 6 core as opposed to Drupal 7. I'm also experimenting with Drupal 8 so I need to download that as well.
By declarding the core version of Drupal, such as "drupal-6", Drush will download that instead.
$ drush dl drupal-6
This downloads the most recent stable version of Drupal 6. If you don't want that, you can add the --select and additionally the --all options to be presented with an entire list to chose from.
$ drush dl drupal-6 --select
$ drush dl drupal-6 --select --all
If you want the most recent development version, just type:
$ drush dl drupal-6.x
The same can be done for other core versions of Drupal, from Drupal 5 upwards.
# This will download Drupal 5
$ drush dl drupal-5
# This will download Drupal 8
$ drush dl drupal-8
For a full list of the available options, type "drush help pm-download" into a Terminal window or take a look at the entry on drush.ws.
About the Author
Oliver Davies is a Web Developer, System Administrator and Drupal specialist based in the UK. He is a Senior Developer at Microserve and also provides freelance consultancy services for Drupal websites, PHP applications and Linux servers.
