I'm a little confused about the reasoning behind installing PEAR through CLI like this (ubu ntu/debian):
sudo apt-get install php-pear
AFAIK Pear is just PHP library - so - that's just bunch of PHP classes. So - if I need one - I just go to their website, download one, plug it into my php code - and that's it. - right? or so I think.
so - my questions are:
1) Why would I install PEAR through command line? What are the benefits over just downloading and ungzipping a package?
2) If installed through CLI - Where those packages are being installed? what dir?
Thanks:)
UPDATE
In retrospect - if you have the same problems with PEAR - they have been addressed by pyrus installer.
Right now - there is no need to install PEAR into single directory using apt-get or whatever. One can simply download pyrus installer (it's a single file) and install PEAR packages using pyrus installer file wherever you want. You can even have multiple PEAR packages location - no need top install it under /usr/php/pear or whatever.
makes a lot more sense than PEAR installer.
PEAR can resolve a package's dependencies much like apt does. You won't have to download dependency packages yourself.
On debian, that's usually /usr/share/php
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I have an old project that relies heavily on PEAR. I need to run the script that installs pear packages daily on a clean virtual machine. In other words, I have to install packages daily since it's a new vm everyday.
Now that PEAR is down and there is no ETA, I can't instal from php.pear.net
My question is how to install pear packages now that pear server is down.
Download the zip you need from https://github.com/pear/ for example: https://github.com/pear/Pager and then pear install package.xml
Unfortunately, this is a terrible solution and it remains to wait until the party gets up.
I tried install package pear Pager in this way:
Download zip from github -> in console I went to the downloaded folder -> I used the command: sudo pear install package.xml
then Pager is installed, but with many package this is very problematic...
I got info from another dev that I have to wait for the website to get up, but it has been going on for so long...
phpinfo() function shows that my PHP version (5.1.6) is installed --without-pear in the configure command section.
How do I install pear?
The Getting and installing the PEAR package manager page should help you : it gives informations on how to install the PEAR package manager, on both windows, Linux, and Mac.
Basically, if your Linux distribution comes with a PEAP package, you should install it.
For instance, on Ubuntu1, there is a php-pear package ; so, you'd use :
apt-get install php-pear
Else, if it doesn't, with a version of PHP >= 5.3, you should be able to use this :
$ wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar
$ php go-pear.phar
With PHP 5.1, though, this is not going to work, as phar support has been added in PHP 5.3...
As a sidenote : PHP 5.1 is really outdated !
PHP 5.3 is more than one year and a half old ; even PHP 5.2 is not maintained anymore... maybe you should consider upgrading ?
1It seems you are running some kind of Redhat-based distribution, but I don't have one of those, so I cannot say if there is a PEAR package for it -- there is probably one, though.
--without-pear only means that the PEAR bits were not immediately created when PHP was compiled.
This usually happens when an operating system vendor that provides packages and wants to split off bits and pieces into their own individually installable parts.
Given the age of the PHP you're talking about, you're probably on RHEL or a derivative like CentOS. Check the package manager for a php-pear package.
All,
I have installed xampp for linux on ubuntu 9.10. The installation directory is /opt/lampp. The xampp website says PEAR comes with the installation.. I am relatively new to PEAR and want to know the answers for following:
Is PEAR installed with xampp or need to be installed separately using synaptic package manager? I browse to /opt/lampp/bin directory and see "pear" there, but when i type it in the command line, it says
"The program 'pear' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install php-pear
pear: command not found
"
I want to use PEAR:SOAP package in my PHP code. How to use that? Do I need to set any paths to the pear in my php.ini?
Thanks
I figured it out.. xampp comes with pear... So, what I did was..
cd /opt/lampp/bin
sudo ./pear install soap
In PHP code, "require_once("SOAP/Client.php");
That's all !! :)
from what I was able to ascertain from my coleagues, you would need to populate pear to be able to use it.
It does come with the installation, but requires the population to be used.
source for code
First, go to your xampp installation
directory/folder and navigate to the
php directory. For me it’s
x:\xamplite\php
x:
cd \xampplite\php
pear install <package-name>
once this is done pear should be available to be used. And as for the second question. XAMPP should have taken care of any settings that were needed. You should not require any additions into the .ini for it to work.
However remember that there are no secuiritis when programming in this fashion, as stated by the XAMPP website.
EDIT**
also you have Pear Ubuntu install guide link that may help.
The error message you got back should be enough. Apparently the pear program isn't in your path. How did you install XAMPP? Did you use the package manager, or did you install it yourself?
If you used the package manager, then this is the correct next step:
sudo apt-get install php-pear
As you were given in the command help. Ubuntu doesn't install a lot of things by default, but it does install a database of stuff you might type, and what package you need to install to get that command to work.
If you installed it yourself, then you need to figure out how to get PEAR to register as being installed.
I'm using yum on CentOS 5.1 - I hand-compiled PHP 5.2.8 from source, but have other packages installed using yum. I need to install a PHP extension via pecl, and it requires phpize to be installed as well. However, doing the following yields a dependency error:
sudo yum install php-devel
Error: Missing Dependency: php = 5.1.6-20.el5_2.1 is needed by package php-devel
Since I actually have a newer version of PHP already installed, how can I force yum to ignore this? Do I need to hand-compile pecl/phpize from source? I admittedly never had a problem before, it only seems to be because of a combo of compiles and yum installs.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Kyle
In general:
If you build it yourself, it goes into /usr/local, and is only accessible to other things in /usr/local.
If you install from RPM/Yum, it goes into /usr, and is accessible to /usr and /usr/local.
So, if you want to install PHP tools using home-compiled PHP, install them into /usr/local as well: typically, with GNU-type software, that'd be something like:
./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make && sudo make install
or
make prefix=/usr/local all && sudo make prefix=/usr/local install
…although most software should default to /usr/local unless you override its prefix setting.
If you want to “hand-build” packages that are based upon RPM's, you can use
yumdownloader --source WHATEVER-PACKAGE
rpm -i WHATEVER-PACKAGE.rpm
rpmbuild -bp ~/rpm/SPECS/WHATEVER-PACKAGE.spec
(your path equivalent to ~/rpm may vary; rpmbuild --showrc will tell you where)
This downloads the .src.rpm package, which contains the upstream (original author's) source (usually a tarball) as well as OS-specific patches; installs the sources into ~/rpm (or your rpmbuild prefix); and then unpacks the sources and applies the patches into ~/rpm/BUILD/WHATEVER-PACKAGE/
From there, you can do the configure/make steps yourself, with the /usr/local prefix
Of course, just installing from RPM's is far easier :-)
yum doesn't know anything about your hand-compiled php version. You can either bypass RPM's dependency resolution by installing the package using rpm --nodeps and hope it works.
Or install the php version you compiled yourself in another directory so it can coexist with the old version from yum, so everyone is happy (not sure if that's possible, I guess it depends on whether your apps use a hardcoded path to php or not).
Or, if you are lucky, a third-party repository like EPEL or RPMForge might have a newer php package, so you don't have to compile your own.
As a rule of thumb, it's better to have one package management in the system, so you'll be better off packaging everything in RPMS and managing it via yum. It will save you lots of time in the long run.
If you absolutely want to have something (fe PHP) compiler from sources by hand, use stow/checkinstall/... or any other solution which would enable you to do rudimentary package management for source-compiled stuff.
Regerding your question, you could try to override dependency checking by downloading RPM of the required package an doing "rpm -i --force file.rpm", since yum does not have any option for forced installations
I want to install PEAR on PHP 5, so I can use Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer.
I don`t know how to install it on my ISP nor my personal MacBook.
Thoughts for both?
The PEAR Manual has a quite extensive list of instructions on how to install the PEAR manager on Windows, *NIX and Mac OS X. The manual also has a section on installing PEAR remotely, for example using FTP. Following those instructions, you should be able to install PEAR (nearly) anywhere. :)
From the command line, do this:
pear install Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
You can also download the package directly here without using PEAR: http://download.pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer-0.9.1.tgz. It's pretty easy to use if you have the script located anywhere within your include path.
For your personal computer, using the "pear" script that ships with most PHP distributions is a good idea.
For shared hosting, you can
Track your dependencies manually, and copy all the appropriate files to the server yourself
With pear installed, do "pear install -R/my/root_dir -a Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer". This will install the package and all dependencies to the specified root directory. Copy this installation to your webhost.
You should also have a look at "pear help" and "pear help install".
You can't install pear to your isp's core. But you can install the individual files from pear's site and upload them to your host:
http://pear.php.net/package/Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer/download