RE: [PEAR] Re: Setting up PEAR on a shared host - any advise or pointers?

Hmmm, ok I thought I was installing Pear packages. How can I tell which are PECL, or otherwise something else? Thanks! :) Jim -----Original Message----- From: Greg Beaver [mailto:cellog@php.net] Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2004 11:36 AM To: Jim Macdiarmid Cc: 'Torsten Roehr'; pear-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PEAR] Re: Setting up PEAR on a shared host - any advise or pointers? Jim Macdiarmid wrote: > Ok, Many thanks go out to everyone who has given me suggestions and pointers > on getting Pear installed locally on my shared host. I followed the > instructions on the Pear website for installing it through ftp and using the > Go-pear.php installer. I eventually had to install it in my public_html > space after numerous attempts in installing it outside the webspace. Well, I > take that back. I was able to get it installed outside the webspace, but > when it came time to try to access the web interface to manage the packages, > it could not be found. I tried setting the include path both in the script > and in the .htaccess file. Still no luck on that end. After installing Pear, > in my public_html space, I was able to access everything, including the web > package manager interface. Only now I'm running into a new issue. When I > attempt to install additional packages, I receive a similar error to the > following, in a popup window: > > downloading zip-1.0.tgz ... > Starting to download zip-1.0.tgz (4,930 bytes) > . > . > ...done: 4,930 bytes > 3 source files, building > > could not create build dir: /var/tmp/pear-build-defaultuser/zip-1.0 > > > Anyone experience this? You can't install extension (PECL) packages remotely unless the webserver is running as root. This is obviously not going to happen :). You can only install PEAR packages. Greg