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title: "Install the Site Studio modules with composer"
date: "2017-11-13T08:55:55+00:00"
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Composer is the preferred way of managing your modules and themes as it automatically handles dependencies and prevents errors. For detailed information about Composer, visit [https://getcomposer.org/](https://getcomposer.org/). Acquia does not recommend that you edit your composer.json file manually.

1.  Open a terminal window and navigate to your project root directory.
2.  Run the following commands to require the Site Studio module and the Site Studio minimal theme:
    
        composer require acquia/cohesion:^6.0
        composer require acquia/cohesion-theme:^6.0
    
    In these commands, change the version number to correspond to the latest release of Site Studio. The latest release is available on the [packagist page](https://packagist.org/packages/acquia/cohesion).
    
3.  Log in to the Site Studio user interface as an admin user.
4.  Click **Extend** on the admin toolbar.
5.  Enable Site Studio core and dependent modules together except the **Site Studio example custom element** module.
6.  Click the form submit button and agree to install the dependencies.
    
    The admin toolbar displays the **Site Studio** menu item.
    

Alternatively, you can enable the modules with the following Drush command:

    drush pm-enable cohesion cohesion_base_styles cohesion_custom_styles cohesion_elements cohesion_style_helpers cohesion_sync cohesion_templates cohesion_website_settings -y