I love drush. I simply do! Those guys at drupal.org have done a wonderful wonderful job by creating drush!! for downloading and enabling a module, all I had to do was this : $cd /path/to/drupal/root $drush dl <module_name> $drush en <module_name> Don't agree? quickstart@qs091:/var/www/demo/drupal-6.20$ drush dl panels Project panels (6.x-3.9) downloaded to /var/www/demo/drupal-6.20/sites/all/modules/panels. [success] Project panels contains 4 modules: panels_ipe, panels_mini, panels_node, panels. quickstart@qs091:/var/www/demo/drupal-6.20$ drush en panels The following projects have unmet dependencies: panels requires ctools Would you like to download them? (y/n): y Project ctools (6.x-1.8) downloaded to /var/www/demo/drupal-6.20/sites/all/modules/ctools. [success] Project ctools contains 9 modules: views_content, stylizer, ctools_plugin_exampl