PEAR - anyone installed it successfully? Ever?

PdV · June 8, 2007

Hi everyone,

I've always like the concept behind PEAR and have tried several times in the past to install it, but have never had any success. There has always been an error of some sort during the installation, and I've never really been interested enough to spend hours digging to find the reasons behind the failures, and what forum topics I have uncovered on the subject tend to go way over my head.

So, as there is a menu option within the server to install PEAR, and spurred on by the fact that pretty much everything included with the server seems to work without any tinkering under the bonnet, I optimistically took the option and attempted to install PEAR.

Well, again, the installation fell over in a big heap with the following errors:

Warning: set_time_limit() [function.set-time-limit]: Cannot set time limit in safe mode in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go_pear.php on line 89

Starting installation ...

Loading zlib: ok

Downloading package: PEAR-stable......ok

Downloading package: Archive_Tar-stable....ok

Downloading package: Console_Getopt-stable....

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go_pear.php on line 953

Warning: unlink(C:\DOCUME~1\valmep\LOCALS~1\Temp/gop6.tmp\Console_Getopt-stable) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go_pear.php on line 1085

Warning: rmdir(C:\DOCUME~1\valmep\LOCALS~1\Temp/gop6.tmp) [function.rmdir]: Directory not empty in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go_pear.php on line 1092

So, anyone ever get this darned thing to install without having to go to PHP and WebDev University?

Regards,

Paul.

Ric · June 8, 2007

I am not sure if it was the intentional but I believe the go_pear.php file is an old version:

Old:

Welcome to go-pear 0.5.0!

$Id: go-pear,v 1.77 2005/09/15 23:52:42 cellog Exp $

New:

Welcome to go-pear 0.6.0!

$Id: go-pear,v 1.105 2007/05/25 20:29:54 cellog Exp $

I download a new version from http://go-pear.org/ this is a text file save is as go_pear.php and place it in folder:

*Uniform Server\udrive\home\admin\www\plugins\pear

Run the server and plugin script; at configuration do not change any parameters just click install.

You will receive the following during the install process:

Starting installation ...
Loading zlib: ok
Downloading package: PEAR-stable......ok
Downloading package: Archive_Tar-stable....ok
Downloading package: Console_Getopt-stable....ok
Downloading package: Structures_Graph-stable....ok
Downloading package: HTML_Template_IT-stable....ok
Downloading package: Net_UserAgent_Detect-stable....ok
Downloading package: PEAR_Frontend_Web-alpha....ok
Bootstrapping: PEAR...................(remote) ok
Bootstrapping: Archive_Tar............(remote) ok
Bootstrapping: Console_Getopt.........(remote) ok
Extracting installer..................ok
warning: pear/PEAR requires package "pear/Archive_Tar" (version >= 1.3.1)
warning: pear/PEAR requires package "pear/Console_Getopt" (version >= 1.2)
warning: pear/PEAR requires package "pear/Structures_Graph" (version >= 1.0.2)
pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/XML_RPC" (version >= 1.4.0)
pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/PEAR_Frontend_Web" (version >= 0.5.0)
pear/PEAR can optionally use package "pear/PEAR_Frontend_Gtk" (version >= 0.4.0)
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR-1.6.0
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Archive_Tar-1.3.2
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Console_Getopt-1.2.2
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Structures_Graph-1.0.2
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/HTML_Template_IT-1.2.1
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/Net_UserAgent_Detect-2.3.0
install ok: channel://pear.php.net/PEAR_Frontend_Web-0.6.1
Writing WebFrontend file ...
Note: To use PEAR without any problems you need to add your
PEAR Installation path (W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear/PEAR)
to your include_path.

Using a .htaccess file or directly edit httpd.conf would be working solutions
for Apache running servers, too.

For more information about PEAR, see:
PEAR FAQ
PEAR Manual

Thanks for using go-pear!

Start Web Frontend of the PEAR Installer >>

Note: I found the link Start Web Frontend is incorrect:

http://localhost/apanel/plugins/pear/%5Cindex.php

Change it to this:

http://localhost/apanel/plugins/pear/index.php

It installs I have not had time to check it out. Hope that helps you can test a few function to see if the installation works!

olajideolaolorun · June 8, 2007

Oooo.. I knew i missed one thing,

PdV · June 8, 2007

Cheers Ric,

I'll give it a go and let you know what happens!

Regards,

Paul.

PdV · June 11, 2007

Hi Ric,

I downloaded the new go-pear.php file and ran it as you suggested.

I now get the following:

Starting installation ...

Loading zlib: ok

Downloading package: PEAR-stable......ok

Downloading package: Archive_Tar-stable....ok

Downloading package: Console_Getopt-stable....

Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 300 seconds exceeded in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go-pear.php on line 1083

Warning: unlink(W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear/temp/gop11.tmp\Console_Getopt-stable) [function.unlink]: Permission denied in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go-pear.php on line 1216

Warning: rmdir(W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear/temp/gop11.tmp) [function.rmdir]: Directory not empty in W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go-pear.php on line 1223

I've tried a coupd of times now and it always keels over at the smae point. I upped the timeout from 30 to 300, but it still stops.

Maybe it's the time of day? i.e. perhaps the server is very busy? I'll try again this evening to see if that makes any difference.

Cheers,

Paul.

Ric · June 11, 2007

Hi Paul

I must confess I did not install the full version of pear I excluded MDB2

However when I installed the full version I received two errors messages.

The timing error you received, after correcting this I then received a memory size error.

I fixed these by doubling the time and memory size not scientific but works.

Note after you make the changes restart both your browser and server then try the installation again.

1) Open the file you downloaded: go_pear.php

Location: *\Uniform Server\udrive\home\admin\www\plugins\pear

Line 264 change 300 to 600

Code snippet:

if (!isset($_SESSION['go-pear']) || isset($_GET['restart'])) {

$_SESSION['go-pear'] = array(

'http_proxy' => $http_proxy,

'config' => array(

'prefix' => dirname(__FILE__),

'bin_dir' => $bin_dir,

'php_bin' => $php_bin,

'php_dir' => '$prefix/PEAR',

'doc_dir' => $doc_dir,

'data_dir' => $data_dir,

'test_dir' => $test_dir,

'temp_dir' => '$prefix/temp',

'cache_dir' => '$php_dir/cache',

'cache_ttl' => 600,

'webfrontend_file' => '$prefix/index.php',

),

'install_pfc' => true,

'DHTML' => true,

);

}

2) From apanel select PHP configuration

Change Maximum Memory Amount (MB): from 8M to 16M

3) Restart both browser and UniServer and reinstall go-pear

All the best

Ric

Ric · June 12, 2007

For completeness I thought I would mention two other points:

1) At the end of the installation our are recommended to change the path

Note: To use PEAR without any problems you need to add your
PEAR Installation path (W:\home\admin\www\plugins\pear/PEAR)
to your include_path.

It’s not that clear hence I have included these instructions:

Open file php.ini

Located *\Uniform Server\udrive\usr\local\php

Navigate to line 439 and change it from:

include_path = ".;/usr/local/PHP/includes;/usr/local/PHP/pear"

To this:

include_path = ".;/usr/local/PHP/includes;/usr/local/PHP/pear;/home/admin/www/plugins/pear/PEAR"

Restart your server for the changes to take place

2) When downloading pear packages some will exceed the Maximum Script Execute Time of 30s increase this to 180s

Change this from Apanel using the PHP configuration link.

Restart your server for the changes to take place

olajideolaolorun · June 12, 2007

Ric can you add this to the post in the Beta Forum... for fixing.

Ric · June 12, 2007

Hi Olajide

Yep no problem .... done.

I have also added a page on UniCenter that guides users through it as an interim solution:

http://center.uniformserver.com/us_34/us34...stall_pear.html

This is one page from a guide I have just published. The structure I hope will make it easy to convert to 3.5. Not intended for experts, I feel the structure looks right.

Well if any one is bored with TV why not be bored even further and read this guide starts at page

http://center.uniformserver.com/us_34/us34_intro_1.html

Well I am off for a beer catch you latter.

All the best

Ric

olajideolaolorun · June 12, 2007

Thanks

PabloVeliz · June 15, 2007

I have done it in a quite different approach:

go to http://127.0.0.1/apanel , click on


    
[*]changed Maximum Script Execute Time (s.): from 30 to [b]300[/b] 
    
[*]changed Maximum Memory Amount (MB): from 8M to [b]128M[/b]
    
[*]click [save]
[*][b]restart[/b] the server
[*]download http://go-pear.org/ and save it on [b]\udrive\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go_pear.php[/b]
I use [code]wget http://go-pear.org/ -O w:\udrive\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\go_pear.php[/code]

go to http://localhost/apanel/plugins/pear/go_pear.php
click on [Next>>]
change Installation prefix to [b]W:\usr\local\php[/b]
change php.exe path, optional to [b]W:\usr\local\php[/b]
optionally check Install those too on the MDB2 checkbox
click [[b]install[/b]]
wait.....
move [b]W:\usr\local\php\index.php[/b] to [b]W:\udrive\home\admin\www\plugins\pear\[/b]
go to http://localhost/apanel/plugins/pear/

There you go..

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