Re: Pear installer doesn't work

Greg Beaver wrote: >Bertrand Mansion wrote: >> My error was related to wrong permissions on the /tmp/pear directory. >> Unfortunately, it seems that track_errors doesn't work correctly since, even >if >> it is activated directly in php.ini, php_errormsg is always empty. >> >> Other OSX users might want to test, just create an empty directory in /tmp >> named pear and give it root write permissions only: >> >> # sudo mkdir /tmp/pear >> >> Then try to install any package you want. >> Please report if it does the same for you and the PEAR installer and PHP >> version you use. Thanks. > >Hi Bertrand, > >Can you confirm that you were using PEAR 1.4.11? This bug was caused by >shoddy error handling in code I wrote a while back in PEAR_Downloader, >and was unearthed by Pierre's addition of download_dir/temp_dir, as it >changed some default behavior. I added a helpful error message in >1.5.0a1 that fixes the problem. If you are using 1.5.0a1, then that's a >problem that must be fixed. I still get the notice with pear 1.5.0a1 but the error message is much more informative, which is good. Here follows an example session: MBP233:~ bertrand$ pear install -f html_common2 WARNING: failed to download pear.php.net/html_common2 within preferred state "stable", will instead download version 0.3.0, stability "alpha" downloading HTML_Common2-0.3.0.tgz ... Notice: Undefined variable: php_errormsg in PEAR/Downloader.php on line 1531 Could not download from "http://pear.php.net/get/HTML_Common2-0.3.0.tgz", cannot download "pear/html_common2" (could not open /tmp/pear/cache/HTML_Common2-0.3.0.tgz for writing) Error: cannot download "pear/HTML_Common2" Thanks. -- Bertrand Mansion Mamasam Tel : +33 1 48 89 88 26 http://www.mamasam.com Creative Internet Solutions