Re: installing pear on unix via ssh on mac os x !

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:46:07 +0000 Jon Bennett <jon@jben.net> wrote: > HELP! > > Never used SSH before (though I have used telnet) and my host won't > install pear for me without me paying some extoriant fee to do so! > > I've logged in and entered the line to install the pear package > manager... > > $ lynx -source http://go-pear.org/ | php > > but all I got was... > > sh: $: command not found > Content-type: text/html > X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.3 > > Anyone ever done this from os x before ??? Yes, works like a charm. It seems you do not have lynx installed. Try to get go-pear with wget or OSX equivalent, or move it using ftp to your home folder. Then php -q go-pear.php. > I've already tried the web installer, but although it appears to > install ok and I get no include errors for the pear libs from my site > (for DB.php, Mail.php etc) I can't seem to access any methods (though > it is namely the 'query') so my code always breaks. here's the error: > Fatal error: Call to undefined function: query() in > /hsphere/local/home/jonbenne/_lib/_classes/class.news.php on line 243 > > that is a pear method isn't it ??? Any ideas ?? Sources help to reproduce/understand what you are doing... hth pierre