Drush Install Script - team based drush

Ya'll should also check out drubuntu.

I don't think that we will do anything with this script as a whole. But parts of it do suggest TODOs

1. We should document better how to setup drush for a team to use (put it in /usr/share/drush)
2. We should encourage package maintainers to stay up to date so that we can just recommend apt-get drush and friends
3. README suggests putting custom commands in /usr/share/drush/commands but thats inside of drush itself if you install to /usr/share. We should look for drushrc files in /usr/share/drush/.drush (see end of script)

I prefer to use cvs to install drush.

This method of installation work successfully for me.

Find the download URL of the recommended release from the Drush project page and download with WGET
cd ~/
wget http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-All-versions-3.0.tar.gz

Extract the archive
tar -xvzf drush-All-versions-3.0.tar.gz

Set up an Alias
Create an alias for Drush in .bash_profile (this can also go in .profile or .bash_aliases)

echo "alias drush='php ~/drush/drush.php'" >> ~/.bash_profile

Optionally, specify a PHP path (version 5.2 or greater required)

echo "alias drush='/usr/local/php5/bin/php ~/drush/drush.php'" >> ~/.bash_profile

Load aliases[1] (or reconnect)

source .bash_profile

Should we change the search path for global commands from /usr/share/drush to /usr/share/drush/.drush, as suggested a while back above, or can we perhaps deprecate this script & install location in favor of installation via pear, and keep global commands at /usr/share/drush? The pear installer puts drush at /usr/share/php/drush, so I think it is fine to close this without action.

Here's a quick start of an updated drush install script based on pear:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install php-pear
sudo pear upgrade
sudo pear install Console_Table
sudo pear channel-discover pear.drush.org
sudo pear install drush/drush
sudo mkdir -p /usr/share/drush/commands
sudo drush -y dl provision

You can add more "drush dl" commands to get whichever Drush extensions you want; customize to suit.

Can't find the drush channel.xml when i try the above.

admin@www1:~$ sudo pear channel-discover pear.drush.org
Discovery of channel "pear.drush.org" failed (channel-add: Cannot open "http://pear.drush.org/channel.xml" (File http://pear.drush.org:80/channel.xml not valid (received: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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Try the helpful hints on the Drush project page; they have been updated post-#9. Help on fixing up #9 would be appreciated.

This issue was marked closed (won't fix) because Drush has moved to Github.

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