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PEAR - The PEAR Installer
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Installing the PEAR Installer.
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You should install PEAR on a local development machine first. Installing
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PEAR on a remote production machine should only be done after you are
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familiar with PEAR and have tested code using PEAR on your development
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machine.
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There are two methods of installing PEAR
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- PEAR bundled in PHP
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- go-pear
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We will first examine how to install PEAR that is bundled with PHP.
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Microsoft Windows
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If you are running PHP 5.2.0 or newer, simply download and
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run the windows installer (.msi) and PEAR can be automatically
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installed.
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Otherwise, for older PHP versions, download the .zip of windows,
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there is a script included with your PHP distribution that is called
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"go-pear". You must open a command box in order to run it. Click
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"start" then click "Run..." and type "cmd.exe" to open a command box.
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Use "cd" to change directory to the location of PHP where you unzipped it,
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and run the go-pear command.
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Unix
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When compiling PHP from source, you simply need to include the
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--with-pear directive on the "./configure" command. This is "on"
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by default in most PHP versions, but it doesn't hurt to list it
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explicitly. You should also consider enabling the zlib extension via
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--enable-zlib, so that the PEAR installer will be able to handle gzipped
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files (i.e. smaller package files for faster downloads). Later, when you
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run "make install" to install PHP itself, part of the process will be
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prompts that ask you where you want PEAR to be installed.
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go-pear
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For users who cannot perform the above steps, or who wish to obtain the
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latest PEAR with a slightly higher risk of failure, use go-pear. go-pear
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is obtained by downloading http://pear.php.net/go-pear and saving it as go-pear.php.
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After downloading, simply run "php go-pear.php" or open it in a web browser
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(windows only) to download and install PEAR.
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You can always ask general installation questions on pear-general@lists.php.net,
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a public mailing list devoted to support for PEAR packages and installation-
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related issues.
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Happy PHPing, we hope PEAR will be a great tool for your development work!
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