pear question

[elduderino]

HI,

I have a mac and im trying to install a pear package for the first time. I understand that the package manager is already installed with php on a mac and that i should be able to
install a package by doing the following:

"If you have downloaded a package release from http://pear.php.net/ as a gzipped tar archive, you can also install it locally. To do this, run the following line on your shell:
$ pear install <file>.tgz"

My question is where do i put the downloaded file on my computer for install command to find?

Any ideas?

[musher]

Put it in a folder anywhere and then run that command from that folder I believe.

[elduderino]

hi,

how do i run a commmand from a particluar folder? Sorry im a terminal virgin!

[musher]

I'm not familiar with Macs, but I'm sure they're *nix based somewhere deep down.

try

cd /path/to/my/folder
pear install pear_package.tar.gz

[rossriley]

you'll need to do:

sudo pear install package.tar.gz

and pop an admin password in when requested.

If you open a terminal window you can type cd at the command line and then drag the folder and drop it on the terminal window, then press return and type the line above.

[elduderino]

great guys that sounds pretty straightfoward. I'll give that a go tonight

[elduderino]

hi guys,

Right i did what you said. I pointed my terminal to the correct folder and put the command in, like so:

james-filtness-powerbook59:~ jamesfiltness$ cd /users/james/desktop/pear;
james-filtness-powerbook59:/users/james/desktop/pear james$ pear install HTML_Template_IT-1.2.1.tgz;

but i got this:

Warning: touch(): Unable to create file /usr/lib/php/.lock because Permission denied in Registry.php on line 284
could not create lock file: failed to open stream: No such file or directory
james-filtness-powerbook59:/users/jamesfiltness/desktop/pear jamesfiltness$


Now i dont know why. I dont even know for sure if ive got the package manager installed and am not too sure how to find that out. I have read at the pear manual here:

http://pear.php.net/manual/en/installation.getting.php

that if you've set up PHP yourself as i have done then the package manager should be there.

Any ideas?

[elduderino]

aha,

Ive logged in as the root user and checked that pear is installed by doing pear list. I get a list of all the pear packages installed ( one of which is what i need!)
Ive tried installing the other ones i need by doing:

sudo pear install MDB2-2.3.0.tgz

and putting the root password in. I get this though:

xml_rpc_client: connection ti the RPC server pear.php.net:80 failed. invalid argument.

ive also tried putting in the path to the folder that the package is in and then doing the sudo pear line and i get :

no handlers for package.xml version 2.0



any idea on what it is? I do not have connectio to the internet on my mac and the above line suggests its trying to connect to the internet. I have the pear package sitting in a folder in my desktop

any ideas?

[rossriley]

try running "sudo pear upgrade pear"
first, it looks like you've got an old version of the pear packager.

[rossriley]

ah! which you won't be able to do if you have no net connection.....
It looks also as if you have other missing dependencies, which you're gonna need to download.

[elduderino]

hi,

right yeah looks like im going to have to get my mac connected to the net. Ive read that elsewhere also.

thanks