Re: Problems with PEAR installer... the saga continues

Okay, it sounds as if you need a new version of Archive_Tar too. The three packages Archive_Tar, Console_Getopt and PEAR are the ones that must be in sync right now to make the installer work. - Stig On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 22:25, Peter TB Brett wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I found a way round the first installer problem, sort of... > > After installing Console_Getopt 0.11 (and thus disabling my old PEAR > installer), I extracted the new PEAR package files to my PEAR tree > without actually installing the files. This enabled me to run the new > version of the PEAR installer with no problems, & you'll no doubt be > pleased to hear that this solved my problem with installing DB_ado. > > Anyway, I then tried to install the PEAR package properly & create > the registry file (to avoid all this hassle again) using : > > pear install PEAR-0.11.tgz > > Which promptly bombed, saying: > > raising error! > failed to create c:\api\php\/\pear > > So I thought, "Ah! It thinks it's installing PEAR from scratch, so > maybe if I try and upgrade?" Whereupon pear.in told me: > > PEAR not installed > > ...which I guess is because I don't have a registry entry for it, > which is what I was trying to get. So having worked out that I > couldn't install the PEAR Package from a .tgz using either command, > even using the new version of the installer, I decided to come and > moan at you guys again, in the hope that you can sort me out. :-) > > Isn't user feedback wonderful? :-) > > Peter Brett > > - ----------- > peter:AT:peter-b:DOT:co:DOT:uk > www.peter-b.co.uk > > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Peter TB Brett" <brettp@oratory.co.uk> > To: <pear-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 8:37 PM > Subject: Re: [PEAR] Problems with PEAR installer... > > > > As I said in my original e-mail, I've got a Win2K system. This > > makes running lynx and piping the output to sh a bit difficult, not > > least because Win2K doesn't support pipes, and if I wasn't on > > Windows I'd have tried the aforementioned already. ;-) > > > > Is there something - anything - else that I can do to solve the > > problem? > > > > Peter Brett > > > > ----------- > > peter:AT:peter-b:DOT:co:DOT:uk > > www.peter-b.co.uk > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Stig S. Bakken" <ssb@fast.no> > > To: "Peter TB Brett" <brettp@oratory.co.uk> > > Cc: <pear-general@lists.php.net> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:25 PM > > Subject: Re: [PEAR] Problems with PEAR installer... > > > > > > > Actually, the latest version of Console_Getopt is not broken, the > > > previous ones were. :-) However, PEAR and Console_Getopt must be > > > upgraded simultaneously, or you are stuck. :-) > > > > > > To get out of this mess, use go-pear: > > > > > > lynx -source http://pear.php.net/go-pear | sh > > > > > > - Stig > > > > > > On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 16:58, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I have reason to believe that the latest version of > > > > Console_Getopt is broken... > > > > > > > > Because I'm working from the version of PEAR bundled with > > > > PHP4.1.2, I have to re-install Console_Getopt from a package > > > > before the dependencies-checking works with pear.in. I'm on > > > > Win2K. > > > > > > > > So I run pear install Console_Getopt-0.11.tgz and the installer > > > > happily over-writes my working version of Console_Getopt - and > > > > then the installer starts refusing to respond to any command > > > > line options or commands and just spews out the standard help > > > > message. Because the installer is broken, I can't upgrade PEAR > > > > or anything else, so I have to re-extract the whole /pear tree > > > > from the PHP distribution and start all over again. > > > > > > > > All the evidence points to the error being in Getopt.php of > > > > version 0.11... > > > > > > > > And on top of that, when I try and install DB-ado 1.1, I get > > > > the error: > > > > > > > > Relation 'has' with requirement '' is not supported > > > > Dependencies failed > > > > > > > > Is this a problem in package.xml? > > > > > > > > Hopefully someone can help me out. :-) > > > > > > > > Peter Brett > > > > > > > > - ----------- > > > > peter:AT:peter-b:DOT:co:DOT:uk > > > > www.peter-b.co.uk > > > > > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use > > > > <http://www.pgp.com> > > > > > > > > iQA/AwUBPPOagxmmzLp5+kKBEQJAggCg7vUi3A2tauPQn1p7aPfxt1riaVAAoIXf > > > > sVcZvvnSf8jWvvWQrlwtu2Ey > > > > =/K0l > > > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > > > > > ---- > > > > > > > > > > > STANDARD DISCLAIMER > > > > > > > > > > > > E-mail communication is not secure and can easily be forged or > > > > tampered > > with during transmission. 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