How do I upgrade drush?

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votes

I created a drupal site in AWS on a ubuntu machine. I have used

sudo apt-get drush

to download the newest drush version, version 7.

when I use 

drush version

I still get version 5.10.0

Now that i have that i am still using drush version 5. how do I make it use drush version 7?

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ubuntudrush

1 Answers

3
votes

Drush 7 uses composer and should be installed with:
composer global require drush/drush:dev-master

If you don't have composer installed:
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer