25 May
2014
25 May
'14
8:24 p.m.
I just wasted a few hours trying to track down the error
Table 'drupal.variable' doesn't exist
when doing drush si. Turns out that the releases of drush marked 6.x at https://drupal.org/node/97249/release?api_version%5B%5D=87 work fine with Drupal 6, but the releases at https://github.com/drush-ops/drush/releases all seem to exhibit the bug. I guess the github project releases simply aren't meant to support Drupal 6.
So, if you're trying to use drush with drupal 6, best to use the old download page, not the one at github.
Probably this was obvious to everyone else, but it was a surprise to me.