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This article was originally a tutorial I wrote on the École Centrale Marseille Drupal club website.
Here are a few explanations about the state of a module so that it's clear when we ask a webmaster to uninstall or deactivate a module.
| The module is on Drupal.org (not available on the installation) | The module is on Drupal.org (not available on installation) |
| Not installed: the module is on the installation (present in the list of modules) | Not installed: the module is on the installation (present in the list of modules) |
Activation (tick the module in the list of modules) | V | ^ | Uninstall (uninstall link on the modules page): deletion of tables associated with the module in the database |
| Installed | Installed |
Activation (tick the module in the list of modules): if the module has never been installed, you only need to tick the module once, the 2 activation steps are purely schematic. | V | ^ | Deactivation (uncheck the module in the list of modules) |
| Enabled | Enabled |
Note: sometimes depending on the module, if you reactivate a module that you have used and that has not been uninstalled, in this case you can find what you have configured as it is, ready to be reused.