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How to update modules and themes in Drupal
To update your contributed modules and themes follow these steps:
- Check whether the modules and themes are up to date. You can do that from the admin panel of your Drupal (Reports tab>Available updates). You can also check what releases there are for the particular module or theme from its page on the official Drupal site.
- Disable the modules and themes that you want to update.
- Remove the folder for the particular module(s) or theme(s) from your Drupal hosting account.
- Download to your local computer the new release for the module/theme.
- Unzip the downloaded archive and upload the unzipped folder to the appropriate location on your hosting account (e.g. public_html/sites/all/modules or public_html/sites/all/themes for modules and themes respectively).
- If you updated any modules, enable them from the admin panel of your Drupal. Then run the update.php script; simply open with your browser the URL address yourdomain.com/update.php and follow the instructions.
You can also check out the tutorial about updating contributed modules and themes in Drupal.