Trying to install PEAR is a Fr3@K!n nightmare
| From: | Terence Kearns | Date: | Tue, 17 Jun 2003 00:56:48 +0000 |
| Subject: | Trying to install PEAR is a Fr3@K!n nightmare | ||
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Trying to install PEAR is a Fr3@K!n nightmare. There's just too many bloody hoops to jump through. It would be a truckload easier just to download packages as zip file (or tar or whatever) and just put them in yourslef. Instead you have to fart arse about with batch files that don't work most of the time and other miscellaneous configurations.
it took me ages to get go-pear to work but I persevered (and punched a hole in my firewall) and it eventually ran. Only to find out that it doesn't get all the packages. Then I had to find out about how to use CVS which is another epic journey all of it's own only to finnaly connect and find a readme file which says "now you gotta run this command" - which predictably does not work. So then you gotta hack the shell script and then it still does not work. It's insane.