Re: Installing pear on windows

We clearly need some help making the Windows installation smoother. Any volunteers? :-) - Stig On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 22:16, Peter TB Brett wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi! > > If you don't have PEAR with your PHP, make sure you downloaded the > .zip Win32 binary distribution. > > If you have PHP 4.2.1, there should be a PEAR.bat file - this runs > the PEAR installer. You'll probably need to hack the bat file around > before it'll work entirely properly. > > If in doubt, there is a pear.in (or it might just be called pear) > file in the pear/scripts directory - the PEAR installer. It's a PHP > script, so you can run it with 'PHP -q pear.in' or 'PHP-CLI pear.in'. > > You'll notice that despite the fact that there are PEAR packages > available with the PEAR distribution that comes in the PHP .zip > archive, but there are no corresponding PEAR .registry entries. > You'll need to install the packages from downloaded archives > (http://pear.php.net/packages.php and download .tgz files). > > If you want to install PEAR-0.11 or later, you'll notice that it > requires Console_Getopt-0.11 or later to be installed, but after you > install Console_Getopt the PEAR installer stops working completely. > This is because the you need to upgrade both packages simultaneously, > which is clearly impossible. > > To work around this, extract PEAR package from the archive it comes > in manually and install the files to where they belong, which should > get the PEAR installer working properly. Now use the PEAR installer > to install the PEAR package properly. You'll need to make sure that > the bin_dir PEAR installer configuration variable is set to your > pear/scripts directory or the installation will crash and burn. > > And it took me three days to figure that little lot out. ;-) > > Peter Brett > > - ----------- > peter:AT:peter-b:DOT:co:DOT:uk > www.peter-b.co.uk > > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Gallagher" <timg@sunflowerroad.com> > To: <pear-general@lists.php.net> > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 6:14 PM > Subject: [PEAR] Installing pear on windows > > > > I've searched through the mailing list archive, and have come up > > with no tutorial, and no recent question about installing pear on > > windows. > > > > Does anyone have a tutorial or some advice? > > > > It would be really nice if someone could write something up to put > > on the pear.php.net website under the installation section of the > > manual. > > > > -timmyg > > > > -- > > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use > <http://www.pgp.com> > > iQA/AwUBPQZanhmmzLp5+kKBEQJ8DgCgjZe8YIoJv+LmqKp0shqUse17cbwAoL/k > 15CKhmvo7uBaUmy4NPMPzeGz > =GFBI > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > STANDARD DISCLAIMER > > > E-mail communication is not secure and can easily be forged or tampered with during > transmission. This message appears to originate from The Oratory School Association, but does not > necessarily represent the opinions of the Association, its employees or students. Should you have > any concerns regarding the content of this message then please contact postmaster@oratory.co.uk > > -- > PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb