Recipe 21.8 Uninstalling PEAR Packages
21.8.1 Problem
You wish to
remove a PEAR package from your system.
21.8.2 Solution
The uninstall command tells the PEAR package
manager to delete packages:
% pear uninstall HTML_Common
uninstall HTML_Common ok
21.8.3 Discussion
Uninstalling a package removes it completely from your system. If you
want to reinstall it, you must begin as if the package was never
installed. PEAR doesn't warn you if you try to
remove a package that's dependent on another
package, so be careful when you uninstall.
There is no way to automatically roll back an upgrade to an earlier
version of a package using uninstall. Also, PEAR
complains if you try to install an earlier version over a later one.
To force PEAR to overwrite a newer
version, use install -f or install
--force:
% pear install --force Net_URL
downloading Net_URL-1.0.4.tgz ...
...done: 3,540 bytes
install ok: Net_URL 1.0.4
The short command for uninstall is
un.
21.8.4 See Also
Recipe 21.5 and Recipe 21.6 for information on installing PEAR and PECL
packages.
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