Introduction to PEAR - PEAR Installation
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PEAR is installed by default with PHP version 4.3.0 and above. You'll only need to install it if you're restricted to earlier versions. Information on how to manually install PEAR can be found at http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php.
With root permissions, run "pear list" to see a listing of PEAR packages already installed on the system.
[root@zaemis www]# pear list
Installed packages:
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Package Version State
Archive_Tar 1.1 stable
Console_Getopt 1.0 stable
DB 1.5.0RC2 stable
HTTP 1.2.1 stable
Mail 1.1.2 stable
Net_SMTP 1.2.3 stable
Net_Socket 1.0.1 stable
PEAR 1.2.1 stable
XML_Parser 1.0.1 stable
XML_RPC 1.0.4 stable |
You will receive an error message saying a lock file could not be created and permission has been denied if you do not have root permissions.
[bluephoenix@zaemis www]$ pear list
could not create lock file: failed to open stream: Permission denied |
We'll use the Benchmark package to introduce ourselves to the world of PEAR. It isn't installed by default so we'll need to install it ourselves. To install a package, run "pear install package-name".
[root@zaemis www]# pear install Benchmark
downloading Benchmark-1.2.1.tar ...
...done: 30,720 bytes
install ok: Benchmark 1.2.1 |
Next: The Benchmark Package >>
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