Install Drush on Ubuntu quickly without Composer

Personally I’m not a fan of installing Drush via composer. For my AliCloud Plesk VPS I did the following which was quick and simple.

1. 
   Download a Drush release from Github to user folder

   $ wget https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases/download/8.1.17/drush.phar

2. Rename drush.phar to drush

   $ mv drush.phar drush

3. Find the bin directory

   $ echo $PATH

   shows /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
   I’ll go with /usr/local/bin
   

4.  Move drush to the bin

   $ mv drush /usr/local/bin/drush

5. Change permissions to

   $ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drush

6. Test with

   $ drush version

This is based on Pantheons post