RE: [PEAR] Re: help required with pear on debian
| From: | George Pitcher | Date: | Sat, 11 Feb 2006 15:19:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR] Re: help required with pear on debian | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.pear.general |
| Request: | Send a blank email to pear-general+get-22938@lists.php.net to get a copy of this message | ||
Paul,
Thanks. Did the trick.
Michael,
apt-get install php-pear didn't work for me.
Anyway guys, I'm sorted (for now).
Thanks and cheers
George
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Scott [mailto:pscott@uwc.ac.za]
> Sent: 11 February 2006 2:00 pm
> To: Michael Rasmussen
> Cc: pear-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PEAR] Re: help required with pear on debian
>
>
> On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 14:36 +0100, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> > > Can anyone tell me how I can get PEAR sorted?
> > 1) open a terminal
> > 2) enter this command: su -
> > 3) enter root's password when asked
> > 4) enter this command: apt-get install php-pear
>
> I would be careful installing pear from the apt sources. Depending on
> which sources you use, I have found many broken packages.
>
> Also, in the above example, you need to specify *which* php-pear to get,
> i.e. php5-pear or php4-pear.
>
> If I were you, I would install pear manually:
>
> 1. Open a terminal
> 2. su
> 3. enter password *******
> 4. mkdir /usr/share/pear
> 5. apt-get install lynx
> 6. lynx -source http://go-pear.org/ | php
>
> --Paul
>
> --
> PEAR General Mailing List (http://pear.php.net/)
> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
>
>