Recipe 21.5 Installing PEAR Packages
21.5.1 Problem
You want to install a
PEAR package.
21.5.2 Solution
Download
and install the package from your PEAR server using the PEAR package
manager:
% pear install Package_Name
You can also install from any location on the Internet:
% pear install http://pear.example.com/ Package_Name-1.0.tgz
Here's how to install if you have a local copy of a
package:
% pear install Package_Name-1.0.tgz
21.5.3 Discussion
To install PEAR packages, you need write permission where the
packages are stored; this defaults to
/usr/local/lib/php/.
You can also request multiple packages at the same time:
% pear install HTML_Common HTML_Javascript
downloading HTML_Common-1.0.tgz ...
...done: 2,959 bytes
install ok: HTML_Common 1.0
downloading HTML_Javascript-1.0.0.tgz ...
...done: 4,141 bytes
install ok: HTML_Javascript 1.0.0
When installing a package, PEAR checks
that you have all the necessary PHP functions and PEAR packages the
new package depends on. If this check fails, PEAR reports on the
dependencies:
% pear install HTML_Table
downloading HTML_Table-1.1.tgz ...
...done: 5,168 bytes
requires package `HTML_Common' >= 1.0
HTML_Table: dependencies failed
To fix this problem, download and install the missing packages first.
If you want to ignore these dependencies, force installation with
-n or --nodeps. You can then
later install the required package.
21.5.4 See Also
Recipe 21.6 for information on installing
PECL packages; Recipe 21.7 for more on
upgrading an existing package; Recipe 21.8 to
uninstall a package.
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