Re: Pear Installation Problems

Dear Charles, Have you maybe some free time to download and extract PHP 4.3.3, which works very fine for me, and try the installer with it? So we can make sure if the problem comes with PHP/PEAR or it has do to something with (the settings on) your system. On the other hand, if you are busy and don't have to deal with this now, you may also try using the web installer to install PEAR independently into every project of yours under your DocumentRoot. I like this way better since you won't need to ask the sysadmin to install PEAR on the production server. See the section "Installing a local copy of PEAR through ftp" on http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.shared.php. If you use the web frontend of the installer on Windows, be sure to know this bug http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=1067 and replace that backslash when the script breaks. Regards, Norbert Charles Collins wrote:

Dear Norbet, I've been struggling with this since early yesterday. I have installed PHP 4.3.5 which contains pear files, then run the pear.bat as explained in initial message. All seems OK, but when I run pear I get the message shown below: - PHP_PEAR_INSTALL_DIR is not set correctly. Please fix it using your enviromental variable or modify the default value in pear.bat. The current value is: ECHO is off. I have run the registry file and double checked the registry settings are correct (case sensitive, etc.,). I have done a re-boot and still getting the same. This is starting to seriously wind me up, please help. Regards, Charlie