Comments on: Getting Up and Running with the PEAR Web Installer

By: Demian Turner

Demian Turner — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 08:22:09 +0000

@Adam – apologies, seems like the original article got lost when I converted to WordPress – please see this Sitepoint article for comprehensive coverage of the subject: http://www.sitepoint.com/article/getting-started-with-pear/

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:00:34 +0000

What the hell? This isn’t a tutorial; it’s a damned pre-requisites spec, and that’s nothing I can’t find on the blasted PEAR website.

By: PEAR tutorials | PHP kitchen

PEAR tutorials | PHP kitchen — Wed, 14 May 2008 22:30:25 +0000

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By: Asher Wolfstein

Asher Wolfstein — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 19:09:22 +0000

When your PEAR installation appears to hang, or your package installations appear to hang, you may have a problem in your _jumpBlock method of Archive/Tar.php. I have provided a manual solution to this problem.

If one can’t use
go-pear.phar for any reason I have provided an alternative manual fix
for this problem http://www.asherwolf.com/projects/php/pear/index.html.

You can direct questions about this possible fix to me at asher AT
asherwolf DOT com.

By: demian

demian — Wed, 02 Mar 2005 21:17:48 +0000

Hi Doug, I know Greg, the PEAR package mgr developer, has been doing a lot of work on this lately, best is to send your request direct to the pear-general mailing list, you can get more info at pear.php.net

cheers

demian

By: biot023

biot023 — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:03:40 +0000

Hallo — when I run the installer, this is the output I get:

Starting installation …
Loading zlib: ok
Downloading package: PEAR………….ok
Downloading package: Archive_Tar……ok
Downloading package: Console_Getopt….ok
Downloading package: XML_RPC……….ok
Downloading package: Pager…………ok
Downloading package: HTML_Template_IT….ok
Downloading package: Net_UserAgent_Detect….ok
Downloading package: PEAR_Frontend_Web….ok
Bootstrapping: PEAR……………….(remote) ok
Bootstrapping: Archive_Tar…………(remote) ok
Bootstrapping: Console_Getopt………(remote) ok
Downloading package: DB……………ok
Downloading package: Net_Socket…….ok
Downloading package: Net_SMTP………ok
Downloading package: Mail………….ok
Downloading package: XML_Parser…….ok
Downloading package: PHPUnit……….ok
Extracting installer………………ok
Fatal error: Call to undefined method PEAR::staticpusherrorhandling() in C:WINDOWSTempgop20.tmpPEARDownloader.php on line 258

Then, obviously, it does nothing more.
What can I do about this?
doug.

By: demian

demian — Sun, 05 Sep 2004 10:29:27 +0000

Lee’s problem was solved by double-clicking the go-pear.bat file. He arrived at the above problem by executing the script in a DOS shell.

By: leegold2

leegold2 — Sat, 04 Sep 2004 23:35:57 +0000

Well, I go as far as this, following the tutorial in PHPkitchen. But the install hangs at the point cited below. I have to ask – what’s the deal here!?? why the hanging on install? Been very tough to get support from the PEAR community, is this a bug?. Using win2k and Mozilla 1.8a. Please help.

Starting installation …
mkdir failed: /C:
Loading zlib: ok
Downloading package: PEAR………….ok
Downloading package: Archive_Tar……ok
Downloading package: Console_Getopt….ok
Downloading package: XML_RPC……….ok
Downloading package: Pager…………ok
Downloading package: HTML_Template_IT….ok
Downloading package: Net_UserAgent_Detect….ok
Downloading package: PEAR_Frontend_Web….ok
Bootstrapping: PEAR……………….(remote) ok
Bootstrapping: Archive_Tar…………(remote) ok
Bootstrapping: Console_Getopt………(remote) ok
Downloading package: DB……………ok
Downloading package: Net_Socket…….ok
Downloading package: Net_SMTP………ok
Downloading package: Mail………….ok
Downloading package: XML_Parser…….ok
Downloading package: PHPUnit……….ok
Extracting installer………………

and PEAR hangs indefinitely

By: Ragnar

Ragnar — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 09:04:16 +0000

Ok changing where the session data was fixed it all. Actually it wasn\’t changed, the folder c:/data/server/php/sessiondata purely did not exsist, I create that folder structure where php.ini pointed to and it fixed it. Thanks for the help!

By: demian

demian — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:06:59 +0000

Sounds like the main problem is you\’ve customised where you want session data stored, and the program is not finding this location. As a foolproof approach, you could remove your customised settings in php.ini for session.save_path, and just create an empty folder c:\\tmp, even another at d:\\tmp if problems persist.

The second problem is that your include path does not point to the PEAR libs, so edit your php.ini file and set include_path = c:\\where\\your\\pear\\libs\\are.

If your still stuck I recommend you forward your request to the pear-general mailing list, they get lots of questions like this.

cheers

demian