Re: Pear and installing packages .. help!?

On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 09:50, Bertrand Mansion wrote: > <arnaud.limbourg@club-internet.fr> wrote : > > > Hello, > > > > What platform are you using ? > > > > Also, what was the output you got running go-pear ? > > > > The tutorial is bit outdated yes ;) > > > > Arnaud. > > > >> Hello. > >> I'm trying to install pear and some packages but am running into > >> problems. > >> Installing PEAR and the packages bundled in go-pear works fine but when > >> I want to install packages such as: > >> HTML_Quickform > >> HTML_Table > >> Excel > >> etc. > >> On the webpage they talk about 'pear install <pear-package>' but this > >> pear executable is not installed after running the go-pear installer and > >> therefore I can't run 'pear install ..' commands. How do I install > >> these > >> packages ? > > There seems to be some problems with the packages of at least HTML_Table and > HTML_QuickForm. I released them at the same time using the PEAR cli tool and > when I untar them now, I only get the package.xml file, even if the archive > is big. > > This was done on Darwin. I think there must be a problem with the pear cli > tool or archive_tar. I don't know if this is related to the problem you have > now. > > Anyway, I will try to make a new release this week for both packages. For now I think that people should avoid releasing packages built on Windows and Darwin machines. There seem to be some problems related to Archive_Tar that must be resolved before we can consider building packages on these platforms stable. - Stig -- Stig Sæther Bakken, Fast Search & Transfer ASA, Trondheim, Norway http://pear.php.net/wishlist.php/ssb