Re: Re: Pear installation problem - Solaris 8, php 5.1.2

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:58:00 -0800 sgarcia@bak.rr.com (Steve Garcia) wrote: > Snyder, Jeff wrote: > > When installing PHP, it attempts to install PEAR, but doesn't quite > > succeed: > > > > > > > > [PEAR] Archive_Tar - already installed: 1.3.1 > > > > [PEAR] console_Getopt - already installed: 1.2 > > > > pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/XML_RPC" (version >= > > 1.4.0) > > > > [PEAR] PEAR: commit failed > > > > > > > > And then it exits the pear installation. It does install php, but > > not pear. > > I ran into the same problem, although I've gotten further than you. > As root, type: > > pear upgrade XML_RPC > > You'll get the most current version of XML_RPC, so you won't get that > message anymore. But the commit will still fail. > > What you *want* to do is: > > pear upgrade PEAR > > Unfortunately, that fails -- it appears that you can't upgrade that > far. > > downloading PEAR-1.4.9.tgz ... > Starting to download PEAR-1.4.9.tgz (283,443 bytes) > .............................................done: 283,443 bytes > requires package `PEAR' >= 1.3.3 > PEAR: Dependencies failed > I'm not sure where I go from here. Is there a way to manually > upgrade PEAR? do: pear upgrade pear-1.3.6 Then: pear upgrade pear --Pierre