# Install a specific version of Drush, e.g. Drush 7.1.0
composer global require drush/drush:7.1.0
- # Install master branch as a git clone. Great for contributing back to Drush project.
- composer global require drush/drush:dev-master --prefer-source
+ # Install 8.x branch as a git clone. Great for contributing back to Drush project.
+ composer global require drush/drush:8.x-dev --prefer-source
* Alternate way to install for all users via Composer:
* [Acquia Dev Desktop](https://www.acquia.com/downloads) is excellent, and includes Drush. See the terminal icon after setting up a web site.
* Or consider running Linux/OSX via Virtualbox. [Drupal VM](http://www.drupalvm.com/) and [Vlad](https://github.com/hashbangcode/vlad) are popular.* These Windows packages include Drush and its dependencies (including MSys). * [7.0.0 (stable)](https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases/download/7.0.0/windows-7.0.0.zip). * [6.6.0](https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases/download/6.6.0/windows-6.6.0.zip). * [6.0](https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases/download/6.0.0/Drush-6.0-2013-08-28-Installer-v1.0.21.msi).
-* Or install LAMP on your own, and run Drush via [Git's shell](https://git-for-windows.github.io/), in order to insure that [all depedencies](https://github.com/acquia/DevDesktopCommon/tree/master/bintools-win/msys/bin) are available.
-* When creating site aliases for Windows remote machines, pay particular attention to information presented in the example.aliases.drushrc.php file, especially when setting values for 'remote-host' and 'os', as these are very important when running Drush rsync and Drush sql-sync commands.
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+* Or install LAMP on your own, and run Drush via [Git's shell](https://git-for-windows.github.io/), in order to insure that [all depedencies](https://github.com/acquia/DevDesktopCommon/tree/8.x/bintools-win/msys/bin) are available.
+* When creating site aliases for Windows remote machines, pay particular attention to information presented in the example.aliases.drushrc.php file, especially when setting values for 'remote-host' and 'os', as these are very important when running Drush rsync and Drush sql-sync commands.