Pear on a shared host problem

Hi all, I've been wrestling with a pear installation on a shared host for a day or two now and could really use some help. I have ssh with the shared host so I followed the installation process outlined in the manual: pear -s -c ~/.pearrc -d doc_dir=~/pear/docs -d ext_dir=~/pear/ext -d php_dir=~/pear/lib -d data_dir=~/pear/data -d test_dir=~/pear/tests -d cache_dir=~/pear/cache -d bin_dir=~/pear/bin that went pretty smoothly, pear is responding via the command line and is installing packages etc. and has installed pear under my home directory on the shared host. I've added ~/pear/bin to the .bashrc file I've set the permissions to 755 on the pear directories. I've set up a web page to try out the XML/RSS.php but I keep getting the error: Warning: main(XML/RSS.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/rssTest.php on line 19 Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required 'XML/RSS.php' (include_path='.:/php/includes:/usr/share/php:~/pear/lib') in/home/virtual/site22/fst/var/www/html/rssTest.php on line 19 I have tried different approaches to changing the include path ~/pear/lib to /home/<homedirectory>/pear/lib but it all seems to get the same result. The page: http://experiencecurve.com/rssTest.php The code: <?php ini_set('include_path', ini_get('include_path').':~/pear/lib'); ?> <?php require 'XML/RSS.php'; $feed = 'http://news.php.net/group.php?group=php.announce&format=rss'; $rss =& new XML_RSS($feed); $rss->parse(); print "<ul>\n"; foreach ($rss->getItems() as $item) { print '<li><a href="' . $item['link'] . '">' . $item['title'] . "</a></li>\n"; } print "</ul>\n"; ?> Thanks for any help on this, karl -- network: http://www.ryze.com/?a=mrkook blog: http://experiencecurve.com/competition/ aim|yim: kar11ong