Error when running PHPUnit

Question

I get the following error when I try to run phpunit . from within my project's tests folder:

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method PHP_CodeCoverage_Filter::getInstance() in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Framework.php on line 46

I installed PHPUnit via these commands:

sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no
sudo pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

As none of the other methods seem to work, including apt-get.

I think CodeCoverage changed their singleton pattern at some point in time and hence removed getInstance but I don't know how to fix this error. How can I either downgrade CodeCoverage or upgrade PHPUnit?

I tried manually installing the latest versions of everything via the following commands:

sudo apt-get install git
mkdir phpunit && cd phpunit
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/dbunit.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-file-iterator.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-text-template.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-code-coverage.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-token-stream.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-timer.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-mock-objects.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-selenium.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit-story.git
git clone git://github.com/sebastianbergmann/php-invoker.git
sudo cp -r dbunit/PHPUnit /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r php-code-coverage/PHP /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r php-file-iterator/File /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r php-invoker/PHP /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r php-text-template/Text /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r php-timer/PHP /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r php-token-stream/PHP /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r phpunit/PHPUnit /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r phpunit-mock-objects/PHPUnit /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r phpunit-selenium/PHPUnit /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r phpunit-story/PHPUnit /usr/share/php/
sudo cp -r phpunit/phpunit.php /usr/share/php/

But that didn't help any. Now I just have a bunch of junk all over the place :\

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Version info:

PEAR Version: 1.9.4
PHP Version: 5.3.6-13ubuntu3.3
Zend Engine Version: 2.3.0
PHPUnit 3.6.9 by Sebastian Bergmann.

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Installed packages, channel pear.phpunit.de:
============================================
Package            Version State
File_Iterator      1.3.1   stable
PHPUnit            3.6.9   stable
PHPUnit_MockObject 1.1.1   stable
PHP_CodeCoverage   1.1.1   stable
PHP_Invoker        1.1.0   stable
PHP_Timer          1.0.2   stable
PHP_TokenStream    1.1.2   stable
Text_Template      1.1.1   stable

Answer 1

you can try this, I have done it on my Ubuntu 12.04

1. sudo pear uninstall phpunit/PHPUnit
2. sudo pear uninstall pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit_MockObject
3. sudo pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit_MockObject
4. sudo pear install --alldeps pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

I have tried many other methods. This works when I get the error blow.

hegaofeng@ubuntu:~$ phpunit PHP Warning: require_once(PHPUnit/Framework/MockObject/Autoload.php): failed to open >?>stream: No such file or directory in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Autoload.php on line 48 PHP Fatal error: require_once(): Failed opening required >'PHPUnit/Framework/MockObject/Autoload.php' >(include_path='.:/usr/share/php:/usr/share/pear') in /usr/share/php/PHPUnit/Autoload.php on >line 48 hegaofeng@ubuntu:~$ cd /usr/share/php/

Answer 2

I've had issues when not using the actual pear.phpunit.de channel to install PHPUnit, especially when trying to use a package manager like apt-get or yum. Try removing all the manually installed stuff you pulled from the git repository and do a pear uninstall of PHPUnit and its optional dependencies. Then:

• sudo pear upgrade PEAR
• sudo pear config-set auto_discover 1
• sudo pear install --alldeps pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

This has worked for me ... hope it helps.

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UPDATE

It probably goes without saying, but you should also purge your previous apt-get attempts as well before following the steps above:

• sudo apt-get purge php5-pear