Re: Pearcmd installing on a new server

Hi Mike, pear 1.2.1 is not very sophisticated when it comes to installing things. The closest command to what you need is upgrade-all, but this will fail if you installed dependencies out of order. The PEAR that is in CVS fixes this and also adds a few handy command-line switches, --alldeps and --onlyreqdeps which install alternately all dependencies of a packages, and only required depdendencies. You still have to specify the path to a file in order to install without downloading, unfortunately, and pear does not expand wildcards. I will talk to other core devs to see if they would be in favor of this expansion or not, as it would be relatively simple to implement. Regards, Greg Mike Carter wrote:

Hi, I've got a fresh Linux server needing all sorts of PEAR classes installing on it. Is there a nice systematic way of installing PEAR classes and their dependancies without having to go through by hand and do a: pear install xxxxxx Also what is the point in the download-all parameter? After downloading everything from PEAR (just to be on the safe side) I then find that install actually re-downloads the pakcages rather than looking locally first? I ca't see any explination of using the pear command in the online website documentation so would appreciate any tips/help please. Regards,