Chiara_PEAR_Server and php_bin diretive

Hello, I was reading Greg's tutorial on how to setup a PEAR server [1] when I ran into some issues. First thing: "If your PEAR installation is using a php4 binary, for instance, the installation will fail and tell you why (PHP version < 5.0.0). You can fix this by setting your php_bin to a php5 binary (like pear config-set php_bin /path/to/php5)" I ran into this problem many times and already discussed it on #PEAR some time ago. The conclusion we took is that php_bin doesn't work's this way. You CAN'T set the php binary being used by pear this way. Instead you have to set the environment variable PHP_PEAR_PHP_BIN. That's how it worked for me. Am I wrong here ? Second thing: pear channel-discover pear.chiaraquartet.net pear install chiara/Chiara_PEAR_Server-alpha all went ok. then comes the time: pear run-scripts chiara/Chiara_PEAR_Server I press enter to the first answer then I fill in the mysql info (user etc.) when I get: Copying DB_DataObject config file to "/home/ifeghali/pear/data/Chiara_PEAR_Server/data/DBDataObject/pear.ini" updating database to add deprecated package support Table 'pear.packages' doesn't exist Updating database failed Install scripts complete well i was trying to do a fresh install not an upgrade. in the time I was writing this email I realized that in fact the post-install script was trying to upgrade because I had already created the database before, although it was empty. So I just had to drop the database and everything gone fine. Suppose the mysql user don't have the write to create a new database, then there is no way to install the server ? [1] http://greg.chiaraquartet.net/archives/123-Setting-up-your-own-PEAR-channel-with-Chiara_PEAR_Server-the-official-way.html regards, iGor.