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How to install Drupal modules
You can install modules in Drupal automatically from the admin panel of your Drupal installation or you can also do it manually. The first thing that you have to do in both cases is to download the module archive on your local computer. You can find many free modules in the modules section of the official Drupal site.
To use the built-in automatic installer, log in to the admin panel of your Drupal, click on the Modules tab and then on the Install new module button. On the next page click on the Browse button, locate the module archive on your local computer and click on the Install button. The module(s) will be installed automatically. Then go back to the Modules tab of the Drupal admin panel and enable the module(s). You should also check out the readme.txt file that's inside the module archive to see if there's anything else that you have to do for the particular module to work properly.
Instead of using the built-in automatic installer you can also upload the module manually. One way to do it is to unpack the module archive that's on your local computer and upload the uncompressed module to your Drupal hosting account using an FTP client. If, for example, your Drupal application is installed in a folder called drupal in the pubic_html directory on your hosting account, you should upload the module in public_html/drupal/sites/all/modules. Another way to do it is to upload the archive in the same folder on your account from the Files section of the Pixie control panel, and then unpack it there using the respective button (it appears in the black area on the right after you highlight the archive by clicking next to its name with the left mouse button). Once the module is in the correct folder, go to the Modules tab of the admin panel of your Drupal and enable it.
Many times the module archive contains more than one module, and these modules ofter require other modules to be enable so that they can be used.
For some more details and screenshots you can also check out our Drupal Modules Tutorial.