Installing PEAR

Question

phpinfo() function shows that my PHP version (5.1.6) is installed --without-pear in the configure command section.

How do I install pear?

Answer 1

The Getting and installing the PEAR package manager page should help you : it gives informations on how to install the PEAR package manager, on both windows, Linux, and Mac.

Basically, if your Linux distribution comes with a PEAP package, you should install it.

For instance, on Ubuntu¹, there is a php-pear package ; so, you'd use :

apt-get install php-pear 

Else, if it doesn't, with a version of PHP >= 5.3, you should be able to use this :

$ wget http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar $ php go-pear.phar 

With PHP 5.1, though, this is not going to work, as phar support has been added in PHP 5.3...

As a sidenote : PHP 5.1 is really outdated !

PHP 5.3 is more than one year and a half old ; even PHP 5.2 is not maintained anymore... maybe you should consider upgrading ?

¹_{It seems you are running some kind of Redhat-based distribution, but I don't have one of those, so I cannot say if there is a PEAR package for it -- there is probably one, though.}