Re: Problem installing package

Hi Tony, On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a complete newbie with PEAR, but have done quite a lot of PHP work, but > it's been a while. > > So, I'm running Debian Lenny on my development box, which contains a > reasonably up-to-date PHP/PEAR (I think): > > $ pear version > PEAR Version: 1.7.1 > PHP Version: 5.2.6-1+lenny4 > Zend Engine Version: 2.2.0 > Running on: Linux tony-lx 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Nov 4 20:45:37 UTC 2009 > i686 Eh, 1.7.1 is about 2 years old, so I wouldn't say that's up to date, but it should work unless your distro has managed to distribute pear with a broken configuration. > I've worked my way through the instructions at > http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.php > and everything, including "Checking if PEAR works" seems fine. I didn't have > to change any settings, and I was quite pleased with myself! > > The objective of this was: > $ pear install HTML_Template_PHPLIB-1.5.0 > which resulted in: > Cannot install, php_dir for channel "pear.php.net" is not writeable by the > current user > > So I tried it as root: > root@/home/tony$ pear install HTML_Template_PHPLIB-1.5.0 > Could not open input file: /usr/local/lib/php/pearcmd.php > > So I thought this might fix it: > tony@tony-lx:~$ sudo chgrp -R adm /usr/share > (I'm member of adm) > > Better, but no cigar: > tony@tony-lx:~$ pear install HTML_Template_PHPLIB-1.5.0 > downloading HTML_Template_PHPLIB-1.5.0.tgz ... > Starting to download HTML_Template_PHPLIB-1.5.0.tgz (18,028 bytes) > ......done: 18,028 bytes > ERROR: failed to write /usr/bin/.tmphtml_template_phplibtool: > copy(/usr/bin/.tmphtml_template_phplibtool): failed to open stream: > Permission denied > > Now, before I stumble around any more, reconfiguring my entire system, I > figure I need help, so here I am. Can anyone please give me a pointer? PEAR installs files to the directories specified in pear's configuration. You can view the configuration with: pear config-show and set a config variable with: pear config-set bin_dir /usr/local/bin You'll need access to all the *_dir directories if you'd like to install packages without elevated permissions. A system-wide PEAR install usually does require sudo pear install Package but you shouldn't need to chgrp any files to get it to work out of the box. If you've installed pear from a package provided by your distro and it doesn't work, you might look for a bug report in their bug tracker, or file a new one with them. -- Brett Bieber